Medha Raj

Medha Raj is a researcher at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Her research focuses on behavioral aspects of misinformation, particularly the moral and ethical dimensions of how people evaluate and share false information on social media.

Key works

• Misinformation and Morality (with Effron, 2020) — Four preregistered experiments showing that repeated encounters with fake-news headlines reduce moral condemnation of spreading them.

Areas of research

• Behavioral psychology of misinformation
• Moral judgment and information sharing
• Social media behavior