The Debunking Handbook 2020 summarizes the current state of the science of misinformation and its debunking. It was...
Communication Articles
The Conspiracy Theory Handbook
Conspiracy theories attempt to explain events as the secretive plots of powerful people. While conspiracy theories are...
How to Spot COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
The COVID-19 pandemic is a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories. When people suffer a loss of control or...
Americans’ Views on Climate Change, NASA, and NASA’s Climate Website
This report summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of American adults conducted in 2018. The...
American Adolescents’ Responses to NASA’s Climate Change Website
This is the second of two reports about American adolescents and climate change. In the first report, we described...
Who do Americans trust most for information about COVID-19?
Jennifer Marlon, Edward Maibach, Matthew Ballew, Parrish Bergquist, Matthew Goldberg, Abel Gustafson, John Kotcher,...
American Public Responses to COVID-19: April 2020
Drawing on a scientific national survey (N = 3,933; including 3,188 registered voters), this report describes...
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
This article explores how emotions such as hope and doubt significantly impact efforts to mobilize action against...
Testing Logic-based and Humor-based Corrections for Science, Health, and Political Misinformation on Social Media
Misinformation causes a range of negative impacts. One proposed solution is applying critical thinking techniques to...
Fossil fuels are harming our brains: Identifying key messages about the health effects of air pollution from fossil fuels
A large body of evidence suggests that a transition away from fossil fuels toward a clean energy economy will...
Communicating Sea Level Rise
Three quarters of the world’s large cities are located on coasts. As climate change causes oceans to warm and expand,...
A 2017 national survey of broadcast meteorologists
Broadcast meteorologists are increasingly playing an important role across America as trusted, local climate change...
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