Research

Publications

* indicates co-first authorship

The consumption of pink slime journalism: Who, what, when, where, and why?

Digital Journalism, 2026
Dahlke, R.*, Moore, R.C.*, Bengani, P., & Hancock, J.T.

DOI

Award: Top student paper award, Political Communication Division, International Communication Association

Coverage: The Boston Globe, Northwestern Local News Initiative
Multi-platform referrers of misinformation: A comparative analysis of misinformation visits referred by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok

Political Communication, 2026
Dahlke, R., Moore, R.C., Adib-Azpeitia, D., Ugander, J., & Hancock, J.T.

DOI
Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: Results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions

New Media & Society, 2024
Lee, A.Y.*, Moore, R.C.*, & Hancock, J.T.

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Collaboration, crowdsourcing, and misinformation

PNAS Nexus, 2024
Jia, C., Lee, A.Y., Moore, R.C., Decatur, C., Liu, S.X., & Hancock, J.T.

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The private life of QAnon: A mixed methods investigation of Americans' exposure to QAnon content on the web

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2024
Moore, R.C.*, Dahlke, R.*, Forberg, P., & Hancock, J.T.

DOI
Designing misinformation interventions for all: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American community leaders on misinformation educational efforts

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2023
Lee, A.Y., Moore, R.C., & Hancock, J.T.

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Political information search in "noisy" online environments: Insights from an experiment examining older and younger adults' searches on smartphones and laptops

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2023
Moore, R.C., Coronel, J.C., Bullock, O.M., Lerner, S., & Sheehan, M.

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Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2020 US election

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
Moore, R.C.*, Dahlke, R.*, & Hancock, J.T.

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Coverage: The New York Times, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Daily Beast, World Economic Forum
From 65 to 103, older adults experience virtual reality differently depending on their age: Evidence from a large-scale field study in nursing homes and assisted living facilities

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2023
Moore, R.C., Hancock, J.T., & Bailenson, J.N.

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Award: Top paper award, Communication and Aging Division, National Communication Association

Coverage: Associated Press, CBS News, The New York Times, WGLT (NPR)
Interpersonal discussion and political knowledge: Unpacking the black box via a combined experimental and content-analytic approach

Human Communication Research, 2022
Moore, R.C. & Coronel, J.C.

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A digital media literacy intervention for older adults improves resilience to fake news

Scientific Reports, 2022
Moore, R.C. & Hancock, J.T.

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Age-related differences in experiences with social distancing at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A computational and content-analytic investigation of natural language from a social media survey

JMIR Human Factors, 2021
Moore, R.C., Lee, A.Y., Hancock, J.T., Halley, M.C., & Linos, E.

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Do gender cues from images supersede partisan cues conveyed via text? Eye movements reveal political stereotyping in multimodal information environments

Political Communication, 2020
Coronel, J.C., Moore, R.C., & deBuys, B.

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Older adults, social technologies, and the coronavirus pandemic: Challenges, strengths, and strategies for support

Social Media + Society, 2020
Moore, R.C. & Hancock, J.T.

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Working Papers

Extending Truth-Default Theory to misinformation: Connecting misinformation scholarship and deception research

Conditionally Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science

Moore, R.C. & Hancock, J.T.

Preprint

Exposure to (AI-generated) untrustworthy websites in the 2024 US presidential election

Revise & Resubmit

Dahlke, R.*, Moore, R.C.*, & Hancock, J.T.

Preprint

Strengthening digital media literacy: An experimental evaluation of verification skills, general warnings, and social correction strategies

Revise & Resubmit

Tu, F., Moore, R.C., Liu, S.X., & Hancock, J.T.

Preprint

Award: Top paper award, Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association

A computational analysis of millions of scam and spam robocalls targeting older adults and the general public

Under Review

Moore, R.C. & Shadel, D.

Preprint

Generative AI and knowledge gains among older adults and people of color: Between opportunity and inequality

Under Review

Lee, J. & Moore, R.C.

Preprint

Detecting synthetic, doubting authentic: AI attribution bias for political imagery

Under Review

Yan, H.Y., Moore, R.C., Tu, F., & Hancock, J.T.

Preprint

Dissertation

Short Educational Videos Improve Older Adults' Digital Literacy and Resilience to Online Deception at Scale

Stanford University, 2025
Winner of the Nathan Maccoby Outstanding Dissertation Award

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