Ny Vasil presents "Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance" at CogSci 2021. Available to watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coADiwwb7TA.
The GPP study provided real claims about covid attributed to different sources (doctor, religious leader, political leader, etc.) Surprisingly, participants from 6 countries were overall good at distinguishing true from false claims.
Ny Vasil is a research associate working on the Geography of Philosophy Project with PI Clark Barrett at UCLA and Assistant Professor at California State East Bay's Department of Psychology.