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  1. Prior beliefs & automated fact checking: Limits on the effectiveness of AI-based corrections

    Article • PLOS One, February 2026, PLOS

    R. Kelly Garrett

  2. The Presumed Prevalence/Persuasiveness of Online Misinformation and Americans’ Dissatisfaction With Democracy

    Article • Social Media + Society, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  3. Self-Reported Exposure and Beliefs About Misinformation Across a U.S. Presidential Election Cycle: Expressive Responding and Motivated Reasoning

    Article • Political Communication, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  4. Belief-consistent information is most shared despite being the least surprising

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Kelly Garrett

  5. The “Clinching Effect” and Affective Polarization: Exposure to Incivility via Social Media in the Presence of Online News

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  6. Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers

    Article • New Media & Society, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  7. Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation

    Article • Journal of Communication, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  8. Engagement with fact-checked posts on Reddit

    Article • PNAS Nexus, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  9. Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news

    Article • PLOS One, January 2023, PLOS

    R. Kelly Garrett, Shannon Poulsen

  10. Correcting misperceptions of gun policy support can foster intergroup cooperation between gun owners and non-gun owners

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    R. Kelly Garrett

  11. Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US

    Article • JAMA Network Open, January 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  12. Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions

    Article • Science Advances, June 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    R. Kelly Garrett

  13. Better Crowdcoding: Strategies for Promoting Accuracy in Crowdsourced Content Analysis

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  14. Public Opinion Perceptions, Private Support, and Public Actions of US Adults Regarding Gun Safety Policy

    Article • JAMA Network Open, December 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  15. Processing Style and Responsiveness to Corrective Information

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  16. New Evidence on Group Polarization From Partisan Media to Misperception: Affective Polarization as Mediator

    Article • Journal of Communication, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett, Jacob Long

  17. Toeing the Party Lie: Ostracism Promotes Endorsement of Partisan Election Falsehoods

    Article • Political Communication, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  18. Flagging Facebook Falsehoods: Self-Identified Humor Warnings Outperform Fact Checker and Peer Warnings

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, September 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  19. Promoting Persuasion With Ideologically Tailored Science Messages: A Novel Approach to Research on Emphasis Framing

    Article • Science Communication, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  20. Social media’s contribution to political misperceptions in U.S. Presidential elections

    Article • PLOS One, March 2019, PLOS

    R. Kelly Garrett

  21. Rumor Acceptance during Public Health Crises: Testing the Emotional Congruence Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett, Michael Slater

  22. Social Identity, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization: How Priming National Identity Shapes Attitudes Toward Immigrants Via News Selection

    Article • Human Communication Research, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  23. Threading is Sticky

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  24. The “Echo Chamber” Distraction: Disinformation Campaigns are the Problem, Not Audience Fragmentation

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, December 2017, Elsevier

    R. Kelly Garrett

  25. Epistemic beliefs’ role in promoting misperceptions and conspiracist ideation

    Article • PLOS One, September 2017, PLOS

    R. Kelly Garrett

  26. Strategies for Countering False Information and Beliefs about Climate Change

    Article • April 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  27. On retiring concepts

    Article • Annals of the International Communication Association, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  28. Biased news sites promote misperceptions without hiding evidence

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, August 2016, Wiley

    R. Kelly Garrett

  29. Candidate Vulnerability and Exposure to Counterattitudinal Information: Evidence From Two U.S. Presidential Elections

    Article • Human Communication Research, July 2016, Wiley

    R. Kelly Garrett

  30. The new information frontier: toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication

    Article • Social Movement Studies, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  31. New Technologies and Social Movements

    Article • November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  32. Why Do Partisan Audiences Participate? Perceived Public Opinion as the Mediating Mechanism

    Article • Communication Research, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett, Dr Shira Dvir Gvirsman

  33. The Partisan Brain

    Article • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  34. Political Participation and Ideological News Online: “Differential Gains” and “Differential Losses” in a Presidential Election Cycle

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hernando Rojas, R. Kelly Garrett

  35. Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge

    Article • July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  36. Partisan Paths to Exposure Diversity: Differences in Pro- and Counterattitudinal News Consumption

    Article • Journal of Communication, June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  37. Implications of Pro- and Counterattitudinal Information Exposure for Affective Polarization

    Article • Human Communication Research, May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Shira Dvir Gvirsman, R. Kelly Garrett

  38. Electoral Consequences of Political Rumors: Motivated Reasoning, Candidate Rumors, and Vote Choice during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  39. Selective Exposure: New Methods and New Directions

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  40. Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media-Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory

    Article • Journal of Communication, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  41. The promise and peril of real-time corrections to political misperceptions

    Article • February 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  42. Bursting your (filter) bubble

    Article • February 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  43. A Turn Toward Avoidance? Selective Exposure to Online Political Information, 2004–2008

    Article • Political Behavior, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Kelly Garrett

  44. Resisting Political Fragmentation on the Internet

    Article • Daedalus, October 2011, The MIT Press

    R. Kelly Garrett

  45. Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring

    Article • Human Communication Research, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  46. The Internet electorate

    Article • Communications of the ACM, March 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  47. E-DEMOCRACY WRIT SMALL

    Article • Information Communication & Society, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  48. On-line and Memory-based: Revisiting the Relationship Between Candidate Evaluation Processing Models

    Article • Political Behavior, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Kelly Garrett

  49. A New Era of Minimal Effects? A Response to Bennett and Iyengar

    Article • Journal of Communication, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  50. Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking: Reframing the Selective Exposure Debate

    Article • Journal of Communication, December 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  51. Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  52. Disaffection or expected outcomes: Understanding personal Internet use during work

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, July 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  53. On Cyberslacking: Workplace Status and Personal Internet Use at Work

    Article • CyberPsychology & Behavior, June 2008, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    R. Kelly Garrett

  54. Selective Processes, Exposure, Perception, Memory

    Article • January 2008, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  55. IM = Interruption Management? Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, October 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  56. Revolutionary Secrets: Technology’s Role in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  57. Which Telework? Defining and Testing a Taxonomy of Technology-Mediated Work at a Distance

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    R. Kelly Garrett

  58. It's All News to Me: The Effect of Instruments on Ratings Provision

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    R. Kelly Garrett

  59. Protest in an Information Society: a review of literature on social movements and new ICTs

    Article • Information Communication & Society, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    R. Kelly Garrett

  60. Testing the Effectiveness of Interactive Multimedia for Library-User Education

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, January 2005, Project Muse

    R. Kelly Garrett