Gizem Ceylan
Gizem Ceylan is a researcher and the first author of the 2023 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled 'Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased'. The paper reports four studies with 2,476 participants.
Who they are
Ceylan wrote the paper with Ian Anderson and Wendy Wood. She is listed at Yale University on the paper, and her co-authors at the University of Southern California. This page rests on that one paper. Her wider career and other publications have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.
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What the 2023 paper proposed
The paper proposes that sharing of misinformation is driven in large part by habits formed through reward learning, in which people learn to share content that attracts attention and cues in the setting then trigger the response automatically. It sets this against two common explanations, weak critical reasoning and bias. The authors conclude that the sharing structure of social media can be designed to build habits of sharing accurate information.
The idea is catalogued on this site as Habitual Sharing.
Sources
- Ceylan, G., Anderson, I. A., & Wood, W. (2023). 'Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(4), e2216614120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2216614120