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As IDE scholars' projects progress, they share early-stage research through working papers that offer insights into their findings and methodology.

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Certifiably True: The Impact of Self-Certification on Misinformation

Jul, 2024

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Marshall Van Alstyne | Digital Fellow

Working Papers As Generative Models Improve, People Adapt Their Prompts

Jul 2024

David Holtz | Research Affiliate

Benjamin Manning | PhD Candidate

Christos Nicolaides | Research Affiliate

Eaman Jahani

University of Maryland

Joe Zhang

Stanford University

Hong-Yi TuYe

MIT

Mohammed Alsobay

MIT

Siddharth Suri

Microsoft Research

Working Papers Certifiably True: The Impact of Self-Certification on Misinformation

Jul 2024

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Marshall Van Alstyne | Digital Fellow

Aaron Nichols

Tejovan Parker

Nina Mazar

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Selection, Signaling, and Ranking Effects of Sponsored Advertising: Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Jul 2024

John Horton | AI, Marketplaces, and Labor Markets Research Group Lead

Apostolos Filippas

Prasanna Parasurama

Working Papers The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

Jun 2024

Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow

Working Papers Combating Misinformation: A Megastudy of Nine Interventions

Jun 2024

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Lisa K. Fazio

Stephan Lewandowsky

Mark Susmann

Adam Berinsky

Andrew Guess

Panayiota Kendeou

Ben Lyons

Joanne Miller

Eryn Newman

Gordon Pennycook

Briony Swire Thompson

Working Papers Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI

May 2024

Neil Thompson | Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and Beyond Research Group Lead

Sebastian Sartor

Working Papers Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and Vaccine-Skeptical Content on Facebook

May 2024

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Jennifer Allen | PhD Candidate

Duncan J. Watts

Working Papers Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues with AI

Apr 2024

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Thomas H. Costello

Gordon Pennycook

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