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Yale's Social Cognition and Decision Sciences Lab
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This lab's research on misinformation and cognitive inoculation is relevant to AI safety discussions around AI-enabled influence operations, deceptive AI outputs, and building societal resilience to manipulated information environments.
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Summary
Yale's Social Cognition and Decision Sciences Lab researches how people process information, form beliefs, and make decisions, with a focus on misinformation, persuasion, and influence operations. The lab produces empirical work on psychological mechanisms underlying susceptibility to false information and strategies for building cognitive resilience. Their research informs both policy and practical interventions for countering disinformation.
Key Points
- •Studies psychological underpinnings of belief formation, misinformation susceptibility, and decision-making under uncertainty
- •Conducts empirical research on influence operations and propaganda techniques and their effects on public opinion
- •Develops interventions such as 'prebunking' and inoculation theory to build cognitive resilience against disinformation
- •Research has policy implications for platform governance, media literacy, and countering information warfare
- •Bridges cognitive science, social psychology, and political science to address real-world information environment challenges
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| Page | Type | Quality |
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| AI Disinformation | Risk | 54.0 |
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