"Examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign"--Back cover.

What is new and true about fake news? /Rainer Greifeneder ... [et. al.] -- Journey and aftermath of (false) information in networks. -- How bad is the fake news problem? The role of baseline information in public perceptions / Benjamin A. Lyons, Vittorio Merola, Jason Reifler -- Truth and the dynamics of news diffusion on Twitter / Robert Ackland, Karl Gwynn -- Retracted articles -- the scientific version of fake news / Judi Bar-Ilan, Gali Halevi -- Cognitive processes in accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation. -- When (fake) news feels true : intuitions of truth and the acceptance and correction of misinformation / Norbert Schwarz, Madeline Jalbert -- Truthiness : how non-probative photos shape belief / Eryn J. Newman, Lynn Zhang -- Can that be true or is it just fake news? New perspectives on the negativity bias in judgments of truth / Mariela E. Jaffe, Rainer Greifeneder -- False beliefs : byproducts of an adaptive knowledge base? / Elizabeth J. Marsh, Matthew L. Stanley -- Psychological inoculation against fake news / Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek -- Motivational processes in accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation. -- Your fake news, our facts : identity-based motivation shapes what we believe, share, and accept / Daphna Oyserman, Andrew Dawson -- Conspiracy beliefs : knowledge, ego defense, and social integration in the processing of fake news / Dolores Albarracín -- Fake news attributions as a source of nonspecific structure / Jordan R. Axt, Mark J. Landau, Aaron C. Kay.