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SUMMARY:PhD Research Talks - Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg - S
 akshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:Sakshi Ghai: “Scoping Review: Examining the impact of smartp
 hones in Global North versus Global South research contexts”\nTechnologi
 es like smartphones are becoming increasingly widespread around the world\
 , indeed “more households in developing countries own a mobile phone tha
 n have access to electricity or clean water” (World Bank Development Rep
 ort\, 2016). While these emerging technologies can promote positive change
 \, they are also exacerbating disparities in the Global South. High-qualit
 y behavioral science research has the potential to locate and address such
  changes. In this pre-registered scoping review\, we investigate the cultu
 ral diversity of samples to gain critical insights into the impact of emer
 ging technologies on different populations. How might a potential bias tow
 ards studying ‘WEIRD’ populations be affecting research outcomes? Coul
 d such a bias be inadvertently marginalizing perspectives of non-WEIRD pop
 ulations\, and mislead researchers into generalizing the impact of digital
  technologies from WEIRD populations onto populations that are inherently 
 different? Our review provides a systematic perspective on the impact of s
 uch emerging technologies and how generalizable the current literature is.
  These analyses will provide important insights for intervention science w
 hich is increasingly operating in a digital world. \n\nCecilie Steenbuch T
 raberg: “Birds of a Feather Persuaded Together: Investigating the Effect
 s of Political Source Congruence on Susceptibility and Resistance to (Mis)
 information”\nWhile misinformation poses one of the most pressing global
  threats to societal well-being\,\nresearch has demonstrated that individu
 als can be inoculated against misinformation from\nfictitious sources. How
 ever\, as source similarity increases likelihood of persuasion\, this rais
 es\nthe question of whether individuals are more susceptible to misinforma
 tion from well-known\,\nideologically congruent sources\, and if so\, whet
 her inoculation interventions are effective\nunder such conditions. Across
  two experiments\, we show that political congruence with news\nsources in
 creases susceptibility to misinformation for both liberal and conservative
 \nparticipants\, and that this effect is mediated by source credibility ju
 dgements. Despite\nthis increase in susceptibility\, we further demonstrat
 e that the inoculation intervention\, the Fake\nNews Game\, successfully r
 educes susceptibility to misinformation from politically congruent\nsource
 s. These findings add to current understandings of source effects in the o
 nline\nnews environment and provide evidence for inoculation as a strategy
  for reducing the influence\nof misinformation even from politically simil
 ar sources.\n\nBoth speakers are PhD students in the Department of Psychol
 ogy at the University of Cambridge\n\nZoom link: https://www.psychol.cam.a
 c.uk/study/grads/grads/spss-joining-details.
LOCATION:via zoom 
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