For years, researchers at the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication and their partners have been studying why some information, like news articles or memes, get shared widely online. More ...
Oct 31, 2023
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While medical professionals and scientific researchers are some of the most effective sources encouraging vaccination, a study finds that individuals who appear to be biomedical experts may also be important anti-vaccine ...
Feb 7, 2024
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The largest U.S. and U.K. news sites are continuing to stigmatize people's weight with the images they use, suggests a new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Health Communication.
Dec 14, 2023
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Obesity is frequently cited as a risk factor for severe COVID-19, but the role of weight bias and discrimination in that risk demands further investigation, according to Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an associate professor of family ...
Jun 28, 2021
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News articles containing misinformation about fentanyl—falsely suggesting that people can overdose and die from simply touching the synthetic opioid—are shared and spread far more widely on social media than stories that ...
Sep 28, 2020
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When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes—videos that appear real but have actually been created using powerful video editing algorithms. The creators edit celebrities into pornographic movies, ...
Feb 17, 2020
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Media reports on chronic pain are focusing on treatments involving opioids and cannabis at the expense of best practice non-drug treatments, researchers have found.
Jan 16, 2020
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A Finnish StopDia study has yielded promising preliminary results in reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle guidance in a group and an application that supports the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits helped StopDia ...
Aug 21, 2019
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I work in the field of bioprinting, where the aim is to build biological tissues by printing living cells into 3-D structures.
May 28, 2019
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Over the past several decades, neurostimulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have gradually gained favour in the public eye. In a new report, published yesterday in the prestigious scientific ...
May 22, 2014
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