Medha Raj
Medha Raj is a researcher and the co-author, with Daniel Effron, of the 2020 paper in Psychological Science on how repeated exposure to fake-news headlines changes the perceived ethics of sharing them.
Who they are
Raj is the second author of the paper, written with Daniel Effron. This page rests on that one paper. Her affiliation, wider career and other publications have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.
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Key ideas
What the 2020 paper proposed
The paper proposes that repetition lowers the moral objection to spreading a falsehood, so that a headline met several times seems less wrong to share even when it is known to be labelled false. The paper's experiments are summarised on the page for the first author.
Sources
- Effron, D. A., & Raj, M. (2020). 'Misinformation and morality: Encountering fake-news headlines makes them seem less unethical to publish and share.' Psychological Science, 31(1), 75-87. doi:10.1177/0956797619887896