Misconceptions about the effects of mRNA vaccination has led to a study on how to combat unfounded mRNA vaccine fears

Belief in conspiracies about the Covid-19 pandemic increased through the early months of the US outbreak among people who reported being heavy users of conservative and social media

Concerns over infecting others play a greater role in people's willingness to be vaccinated in sparsely populated areas than dense urban ones

Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling Spread of Covid-19

During the 2016 election cycle, politically polarizing tweets by Russian trolls about vaccination included pro- and anti-vaccination messages targeted at people with specific political inclinations by trolls using an assortment of fake persona types.

Surveys of nearly 2,500 Americans suggest that social media users are more likely to be misinformed about vaccines than users of traditional media

Justified and unjustified movie violence evoke different brain responses, suggests first study to show this

Slower growth in working memory linked to teen driving crashes, the leading cause of injury and death among 16- to 19-year-olds in US

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States, but cannabis use among teens does not appear to lead to greater conduct problems

One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is “broken” or “in crisis.” A new analysis of how the media cover science news argues that generalizations about a crisis in science aren’t justified by the available evidence…