Professor Damon Centola is a scientific advisor for the Community for Rigor project, which creates educational materials to teach core concepts in scientific rigor.
A new paper by Annenberg Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Javier Granados Samayoa finds that, in certain situations, "bypassing" misinformation is more effective than correcting it.
APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson and School of Nursing Dean Antonia M. Villarruel are among 60 people named to a task force to produce a Vision for American Science and Technology.
The former National Institutes of Health director spoke to APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson about his new book, "The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust."
The Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media will begin his new appointment on Nov. 1.
Climate scientist Michael Mann of the Annenberg School and the School of Arts & Sciences leads a research community that aims to understand climate anxiety and improve climate communication.
A recent study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that people who consume far-right media were less likely to believe in human-caused climate change, while those who read centrist and science media were more likely to believe in it and support a carbon tax.
Research from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.
Prof. Dolores Albarracín and her team dug through years of research on the science behind behavior change to determine the best ways to promote changes in behavior.