Vicky Chuqiao Yang

Researcher at MIT Sloan working on behavioral science and misinformation, with focus on how people form beliefs about both personal judgments and social consensus in the context of false information.

Sources in this wiki

• Yang, Berinsky & Rand (2026) — Misinformation Distorts Perceived Social Consensus, and Interventions Help Correct It — Demonstrates that exposure to misinformation distorts second-order beliefs (what people think others believe) more than first-order beliefs; shows that media literacy tips and descriptive norms reduce both distortion types, revealing a previously underappreciated social benefit of standard misinformation interventions.

Topics

• misinformation, illusory-truth-effect, media-literacy

Notes

Research bridges behavioral economics and misinformation by examining how false information shapes not only individual beliefs but also meta-perceptions of social consensus with implications for collective action and democratic coordination.