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The Problem of European Misperceptions in Politics, Health, and Science:Causes, Consequences, and the Search for Solutions

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Organization address address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE city: EXETER postcode: EX4 4QJ website: www.ex.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Total cost	1˙931˙730 €
EC max contribution	1˙931˙730 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-CoG
Funding Scheme	ERC-COG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-09-01 to 2021-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Organization address address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE city: EXETER postcode: EX4 4QJ website: www.ex.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (EXETER)	coordinator	1˙931˙730.00

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Project objective

While some people may simply lack relevant factual knowledge, others may actively hold incorrect beliefs. These factual beliefs that are not supported by clear evidence and expert opinion are what scholars call misperceptions (Nyhan and Reifler 2010). This project is principally about misperceptions—the “facts” that people believe that simply are not true. What misperceptions do Europeans hold on issues like immigration, vaccines, and climate change? Who holds these misperceptions? What demographic and attitudinal variables are correlated with holding misperceptions? And ultimately, what can be done to help reduce misperceptions?

Misperceptions are an important topic for study because they distort public preferences and outcomes. This research program investigating misperceptions is currently at the state of the art in political science. To date, only a handful of published studies by political scientists have examined how corrective information changes underlying factual beliefs. The results of these studies are uniformly troubling—among those vulnerable to holding a given misperception, corrective efforts often make misperceptions worse or decrease the likelihood to engage in desired behaviors.

This ambitious project has three primary objectives. First, the project will assess levels of misperceptions in Europe on three specific issues (immigration, vaccines, and climate change) that represent three different substantive domains of knowledge (politics, health, and science). Second, the project will examine a variety of approaches and techniques for combatting misperceptions and generating effective corrections. Third, the project will take what is learned from the first two stages and transmit the findings back to relevant academic and policy-maker audiences in order to aid policy design and communication efforts on important policy issues.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Benjamin A. Lyons, Ariel Hasell, Natalie Jomini Stroud Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs published pages: 876-894, ISSN: 1752-4032, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2018.1520735	Environmental Communication 12/7	2019-10-29
2019	Benjamin A. Lyons Discussion Network Activation: An Expanded Approach to Selective Exposure published pages: 32, ISSN: 2183-2439, DOI: 10.17645/mac.v7i3.2112	Media and Communication 7/3	2019-10-29
2018	Benjamin A. Lyons, Ariel Hasell, Meghnaa Tallapragada, Kathleen Hall Jamieson Conversion messages and attitude change: Strong arguments, not costly signals published pages: 320-338, ISSN: 0963-6625, DOI: 10.1177/0963662518821017	Public Understanding of Science 28/3	2019-10-29
2018	Benjamin Lyons Reducing Group Alignment in Factual Disputes? The Limited Effects of Social Identity Interventions published pages: 789-807, ISSN: 1075-5470, DOI: 10.1177/1075547018804826	Science Communication 40/6	2019-10-29
2019	Benjamin A. Lyons, Heather Akin, Natalie Jomini Stroud Proximity (Mis)perception: Public Awareness of Nuclear, Refinery, and Fracking Sites published pages: , ISSN: 0272-4332, DOI: 10.1111/risa.13387	Risk Analysis	2019-10-29
2019	Vanessa P. Scott, Douglas J. Opel, Jason Reifler, Sharon Rikin, Kalpana Pethe, Angela Barrett, Melissa S. Stockwell Office-Based Educational Handout for Influenza Vaccination: A Randomized Controlled Trial published pages: e20182580, ISSN: 0031-4005, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-2580	Pediatrics 144/2	2019-10-29
2017	D.J. Flynn, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics published pages: 127-150, ISSN: 0162-895X, DOI: 10.1111/pops.12394	Political Psychology 38	2019-06-18
2017	Benjamin A. Lyons When Readers Believe Journalists: Effects of Adjudication in Varied Dispute Contexts published pages: , ISSN: 0954-2892, DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edx013	International Journal of Public Opinion Research	2019-06-18
2019	Brendan Nyhan, Ethan Porter, Jason Reifler, Thomas J. Wood Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability published pages: , ISSN: 0190-9320, DOI: 10.1007/s11109-019-09528-x	Political Behavior	2019-06-06
2018	Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions published pages: 222-244, ISSN: 1745-7289, DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2018.1465061	Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 29/2	2019-06-06
2018	Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Merola, Jason Reifler Not Just Asking Questions: Effects of Implicit and Explicit Conspiracy Information About Vaccines and Genetic Modification published pages: 1-10, ISSN: 1041-0236, DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1530526	Health Communication	2019-06-06

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