Michael Schwalb
Social psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford studying polarization, misinformation, and cognitive processes that underlie belief and intervention effectiveness.
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Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 9min
332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)
Michael Schwalb, Stanford social psychologist studying polarization; Katie Joseff, social neuroscience researcher on partisanship and misinformation; Samuel Woolley, professor of computational propaganda and disinformation. They discuss a new cognitive distortion called concordance over truth bias. Short takes cover how political alignment beats factual accuracy, study design and surprising predictors, and why interventions and platform policy matter.
