Lisa Fazio

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Associate prof Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com

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Our team just published a "rapid" analysis of some of the rumors we've been tracking since the assassination attempt on Saturday, drawing on these foundational understandings of "collective sensemaking" during crises: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/t...

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attemptwww.cip.uw.edu We share some of what we have seen on social media and other online spaces in the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, and put that into context based on what we know about how people use …

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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Me and the grad students eyeing the snacks during seminar to see if we can grab a second cookie after the talk.

Good morning! #birds

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**Publication Alert!** "An Ideology by Any Other Name," from me & sky-free Chris Johnston in Political Behavior. We investigate ideological identities in the U.S. beyond 'liberal' and 'conservative.' VoR: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Free to read: rdcu.be/dNDiD A brief summary thread:

An Ideology by Any Other Name - Political Behaviordoi.org The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are prominent features of political discourse in the United States, and many citizens choose to identify with one of these ideological labels. Yet, many citizens...

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The old lady next to me showed me her phone and was like “if we don’t take off soon, we might get hit by a tornado” and IMMEDIATELY went to sleep. Her leopard print sleeping mask matches her leopard print leggings. I’m impressed and jealous. Old people really don’t give a fuck.

I knew I should’ve stopped by the McDonald’s next to my gate before boarding. But no, there was no time. I didn’t want to miss my flight.

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Proud to be quoted alongside the great @katestarbird.bsky.social in this WaPo piece on post-assassination-attempt conspiracy theories. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Liars and trolls overwhelm social media after Trump rally shootingwww.washingtonpost.com The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has triggered violent rhetoric and misinformation on some online platforms as RNC delegates gather in Milwaukee.

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It feels eerily prescient now that I wrote in Holding It Together about why the engineers and profiteers of our DIY society would see JD Vance as the ideal candidate to back if they want to maintain their grip on wealth and power.

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Flashback

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Unnecessary shortages of ADHD meds (and related price gouging tactics from manufacturers and insurance companies) are putting a huge strain on families--including my own. A few thoughts... 1/ www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/07...

National shortage of ADHD medications strains PA familieswww.spotlightpa.org Shortages of ADHD medications have forced patients to ration and to spend hours calling different pharmacies to get prescriptions filled.

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Any day now* Trump will become presidential *Things people have been saying since 2016

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This collective sensemaking process is both a personal process (we want to understand the terrible event), a collective process (we want to help others and be helped by others to understand it), and a political process (we want understandings to align with our political aims, if possible).

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But as researchers, (to some extent) we understand the social, psychological, political, and social media processes shaping those conspiracy theories. I encouraged folks to wait for more information before "anchoring on a frame" for interpreting the limited evidence. Let me try to explain.

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My colleagues & I have studied the social media aftermath of mass shooting events for a decade. We’re still processing the horrifying, abhorrent, and tragic event yesterday, which appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump. In case they're useful, here are some first thoughts:

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I don’t have anything to add about this current political moment - and neither do you probably - but we can boost this sweet puppy available for adoption in Fort Worth.

My neighbor is fostering Blossom - what a cutie! She’s dog and kid friendly! Available for adoption from Fort Worth animal shelter.

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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University of Michigan is hiring for an open rank faculty position in Social Psychology, all relevant content areas considered! Spread the word, and apply by September 15 at: lnkd.in/eg3WrE2H

LinkedInlnkd.in This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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My personal experience at bluesky has been fantastic, much of the good of pre-Musk Twitter and none of the bad. Yet I’ve never felt as pessimistic about the future of this app as I do right now, watching another important Black voice get run off the platform. Seriously, what the fuck, people?

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This is always my first advice to academics: pitch locally.

Scholars often ask me what they can do, and this is a tangible thing. State and local media are, in particular, hungry for opinion pieces from experts. Lots of people targeting that media is more effective than lots of people trying to land that one NYT op-ed

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop Itwww.nytimes.com Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.

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My week in 3 acts:

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Seen this circulating. Fitting that it's referencing the Titanic

So excited - this commission was for me ❤️ It just arrived today and is gorgeous

Viral Attack! ~the dangers of social media~

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Also, check out the great video the Vanderbilt digital team made contrasting the TV news coverage of the campus protests in the spring of 1969 and 2024. 5/ youtu.be/nH80SwJGedg

College Campus Protest Comparison - Then vs. Nowyoutu.be

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Curious about how TV news coverage of the widespread campus protests and police responses this spring differed from the coverage in the late 1960s? So were we! Overall there were lots of similarities in the structure of the reporting and the images featured 1/ theconversation.com/from-the-60s...

From the ’60s till now, TV news coverage of large-scale university protests doesn’t look so differenttheconversation.com While people rely less on TV for their daily news than they used to, it remains influential − and the TV storytelling about student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and more can shift opinions.

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Lots of comments about parents. I meant to write a follow-up article about the research on parents, but never got around to it. Your intuitions are correct: the kids are alright, but their parents are not. To learn more, start with this short review paper; free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

There is a lot of research on this. Learning about racism doesn't make white kids feel guilty. Here is what it does. Summary of some of the studies here: fivethirtyeight.com/features/wha...

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

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Have you or someone you know published an American politics book recently? Would you like to get free advertisement for it by letting me pair it with an image of Taylor Swift? If you answered "yes" to both questions, DM me so I can include it in this year's installment of "Taylor Swift as Books!"

Every year since 2020, I have shared a "Taylor Swift as (academic) American politics books" thread on The Bad Place. I posted the 4th annual edition today, but would like to bring the tradition to BlueSky. Without further ado... Accountability in State Legislatures by @steverogersinfo.bsky.social

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There is a lot of research on this. Learning about racism doesn't make white kids feel guilty. Here is what it does. Summary of some of the studies here: fivethirtyeight.com/features/wha...

Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.

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“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

🧵 And just in case you think it doesn't matter- lots of research shows that people learn false facts from books and movies (even when they know the stories are fictional) e.g. tinyurl.com/Fazio2013 and people are bad at noticing errors in what they read and hear theconversation.com/why-you-stin...

And these things will stick. Not every company out there has the resources or integrity to have a professional zoologist fact check their content. So it will make its way into your kids educational books, into their tv shows, into podcasts.

Why you stink at fact-checkingtheconversation.com Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don’t notice errors and misinformation we know are wrong, we also then remember them as true.