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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" xml:lang="en" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">PSS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Psychol Sci</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Psychological Science</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0956-7976</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1467-9280</issn><publisher><publisher-name>SAGE Publications</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1177/09567976241232905</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10.1177_09567976241232905</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Articles</subject><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Articles</subject></subj-group></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-4309</contrib-id><name><surname>Martel</surname><given-names>Cameron</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1-09567976241232905">1</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="corresp1-09567976241232905"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-571X</contrib-id><name><surname>Rathje</surname><given-names>Steve</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2-09567976241232905">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-9179</contrib-id><name><surname>Clark</surname><given-names>Cory J.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3-09567976241232905">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4-09567976241232905">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6143</contrib-id><name><surname>Pennycook</surname><given-names>Gordon</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5-09567976241232905">5</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Van Bavel</surname><given-names>Jay J.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2-09567976241232905">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8975-2783</contrib-id><name><surname>Rand</surname><given-names>David G.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1-09567976241232905">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6-09567976241232905">6</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7-09567976241232905">7</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>van der Linden</surname><given-names>Sander</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8-09567976241232905">8</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1-09567976241232905"><label>1</label>Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</aff><aff id="aff2-09567976241232905"><label>2</label>Department of Psychology, New York University</aff><aff id="aff3-09567976241232905"><label>3</label>The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania</aff><aff id="aff4-09567976241232905"><label>4</label>School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania</aff><aff id="aff5-09567976241232905"><label>5</label>Department of Psychology, Cornell University</aff><aff id="aff6-09567976241232905"><label>6</label>Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</aff><aff id="aff7-09567976241232905"><label>7</label>Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</aff><aff id="aff8-09567976241232905"><label>8</label>Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge</aff><author-notes><corresp id="corresp1-09567976241232905">Cameron Martel, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: <email>cmartel@mit.edu</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>20</day><month>3</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>35</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>435</fpage><lpage>450</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>9</day><month>5</month><year>2023</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>29</day><month>1</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© The Author(s) 2024</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder content-type="sage">Association for Psychological Science</copyright-holder><license><ali:license_ref start_date="2024-03-20" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage">https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage</ext-link>).</license-p></license></permissions><related-object source-id="https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1177/09567976241232905" source-id-type="url" source-type="peer-review-report"/><abstract><p>The spread of misinformation is a pressing societal challenge. Prior work shows that shifting attention to accuracy increases the quality of people’s news-sharing decisions. However, researchers disagree on whether accuracy-prompt interventions work for U.S. Republicans/conservatives and whether partisanship moderates the effect. In this preregistered adversarial collaboration, we tested this question using a multiverse meta-analysis (<italic>k</italic> = 21; <italic>N</italic> = 27,828). In all 70 models, accuracy prompts improved sharing discernment among Republicans/conservatives. We observed significant partisan moderation for single-headline “evaluation” treatments (a critical test for one research team) such that the effect was stronger among Democrats than Republicans. However, this moderation was not consistently robust across different operationalizations of ideology/partisanship, exclusion criteria, or treatment type. Overall, we observed significant partisan moderation in 50% of specifications (all of which were considered critical for the other team). We discuss the conditions under which moderation is observed and offer interpretations.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>misinformation</kwd><kwd>accuracy prompts</kwd><kwd>nudges</kwd><kwd>political psychology</kwd><kwd>adversarial collaboration</kwd><kwd>open data</kwd><kwd>preregistered</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group specific-use="FundRef"><award-group id="award1-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding1-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>national science foundation</institution><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001</institution-id></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding1-09567976241232905">174530</award-id></award-group><award-group id="award2-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding2-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>Gates Cambridge Scholarship</institution><institution-id/></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding2-09567976241232905">OPP1144</award-id></award-group><award-group id="award3-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding3-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>russell sage foundation</institution><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">https://doi.org/10.13039/100000935</institution-id></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding3-09567976241232905">G-G-2110-33990</award-id></award-group><award-group id="award4-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding4-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>John Templeton World Charity Foundation</institution><institution-id/></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding4-09567976241232905">TWCF-2023-31570</award-id></award-group><award-group id="award5-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding5-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>alfred p. sloan foundation</institution><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">https://doi.org/10.13039/100000879</institution-id></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding5-09567976241232905">2021-16891</award-id></award-group><award-group id="award6-09567976241232905"><funding-source id="funding6-09567976241232905"><institution-wrap><institution>Templeton World Charity Foundation</institution><institution-id/></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id rid="funding6-09567976241232905">TWCF-2022-30561</award-id></award-group></funding-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>special-property</meta-name><meta-value>open-data</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>special-property</meta-name><meta-value>preregistration</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>typesetter</meta-name><meta-value>ts1</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front></article>