Bonus Episode: Fake News with Chrysalis Wright, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Fake news, 2017’s word of the year and recent edition to the Oxford English Dictionary, has become a widespread problem. This episode of Speaking of Psychology discusses how this phenomenon of intentionally spreading fabricated content and presenting it as factual is impacting our views of the world and why that matters. Recorded live at APA 2019 in Chicago with Vaile Wright, PhD, as guest host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.3	Hi, everyone. It's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology.
0:36.4	This episode was recorded live during APA 2019, our annual convention that was held in Chicago this year.
0:43.7	I was away on maternity leave during that time, so my colleague Dr. Vale Wright was a guest host.
0:49.0	We hope you enjoy the episode.
0:50.7	Hello, and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a podcast by the American Psychological Association.
0:56.9	I'm Dr. Vale Wright, the director of research and special projects at APA, and I'm guest hosting
1:02.3	this podcast today coming to you from APA 2019 in Chicago. Joining us today is Dr. Cressalus Wright.
1:09.3	She is the director of media and migration Lab at the University of Central Florida,
1:14.6	and we're going to be talking about fake news.
1:16.6	I mean, my goodness, fake news.
1:18.6	It's 2017's word of the year.
1:20.6	It just made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, and it's everywhere.
1:24.6	So I'm hoping we can really talk about and have a dialogue about what does it mean when
1:29.6	intentionally fabricated content is spread as fact, and why should we care about it?
1:35.9	So that's what we're going to talk about today.
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