Associate Professor Hillary Shulman and second year PhD student Kara Fort were published in a special issue of Frontiers in Psychology focused on approaches to countering mass-mediated misinformation. Their research found that when people are given simple tasks like reading a simple passage or recalling a few examples (as opposed to complex or difficult tasks), it builds their confidence and helps them to better differentiate between true and false information. Their paper, “Using a signal detection approach to understand the impacts of processing fluency and efficacy on accuracy in misinformation detection,” examines how thinking about our own thoughts (metacognitions) affects how carefully people check whether the information they came across is true or not.