Rand, Pennycook awarded for broad study of misinformation

The Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) has chosen a sweeping study led by Cornell psychology researchers David Rand and Gordon Pennycook as its publication of the year.

"Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents," published in Nature Human Behavior, was selected as one of two papers for this year's publication award. Rand, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor and professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; professor of marketing in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), and Pennycook, associate professor of psychology and Dorothy and Ariz Mehta Faculty Leadership Fellow (A&S) are the co-corresponding authors.

The award was announced June 8 at the BSPA 2026 conference at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

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