Benjamin Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 89084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Google (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8636-6702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Digital Literacy: Building Youth Digital Resilience Through Existing “Information Sensibility” Practices
Youth media consumption and disordered eating practices have historically been subjects of moral panics, often resulting in protective, deficit-based interventions like content removal. We argue for interventions which instead equip youth to evaluate and manage risks in their online environments, building upon their existing “information sensibility” practices. Drawing upon ethnographic research and intervention testing with 77 participants in th…
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
Sowing “seeds of doubt: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States
We conducted ethnographic research with 31 misinformation creators and consumers in Brazil and the United States before, during, and after a major election to understand consumption and production of election and medical misinformation. This study contributes to research on misinformation ecosystems by focusing on poorly understood “micro-influencers” who create misinformation in peer-to-peer networks. We detail four key tactics that micro-influe…
Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone
The Association Between Black vs. White Race and 30-Day Hospitalization Among People Diagnosed with Covid-19 Within an Integrated Care Setting: A Cohort Study
Book Forum
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Religion, Medicine, Politics, and Practice
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COV…
Fighting Conspiracy Theories Online at Scale
This 2019 project conducted in the US and the UK sought to understand which conspiracy theories are harmful and which are benign, with an eye towards finding ways to combat disinformation and extremism. This case study demonstrates how ethnographic methods led to insights on what "triggered" conspiracy belief, the social and emotional roles conspiracy theories played in believers' lives, and how conspiracy belief was often a reflection of a perso…
Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish
A dark business, full of shadows: Analogy and theology in William Harvey
Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design
Stuart Peterfreund. Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvii + 194 pp. £52. ISBN: 978–0–230–10884–4. - Volume 66 Issue 2
Concerns about climate change mitigation projects: Summary of findings from case studies in Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa
The Mirror and Man
Tuberculosis in Racial Types with Special Reference to Mexicans
Tuberculosis in Racial Types with Special Reference to Mexicans Benjamin Goldberg CopyRight*Read before the Vital Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association at the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting at Chicago, Ill., October 18, 1928. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.19.3.274 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish
A dark business, full of shadows: Analogy and theology in William Harvey
Beyond Digital Literacy: Building Youth Digital Resilience Through Existing “Information Sensibility” Practices
Youth media consumption and disordered eating practices have historically been subjects of moral panics, often resulting in protective, deficit-based interventions like content removal. We argue for interventions which instead equip youth to evaluate and manage risks in their online environments, building upon their existing “information sensibility” practices. Drawing upon ethnographic research and intervention testing with 77 participants in th…
Sowing “seeds of doubt: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States
We conducted ethnographic research with 31 misinformation creators and consumers in Brazil and the United States before, during, and after a major election to understand consumption and production of election and medical misinformation. This study contributes to research on misinformation ecosystems by focusing on poorly understood “micro-influencers” who create misinformation in peer-to-peer networks. We detail four key tactics that micro-influe…
The Association Between Black vs. White Race and 30-Day Hospitalization Among People Diagnosed with Covid-19 Within an Integrated Care Setting: A Cohort Study
Tuberculosis in Racial Types with Special Reference to Mexicans
Tuberculosis in Racial Types with Special Reference to Mexicans Benjamin Goldberg CopyRight*Read before the Vital Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association at the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting at Chicago, Ill., October 18, 1928. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.19.3.274 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Mirror and Man
Concerns about climate change mitigation projects: Summary of findings from case studies in Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa
A dark business, full of shadows: Analogy and theology in William Harvey
Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design
Stuart Peterfreund. Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvii + 194 pp. £52. ISBN: 978–0–230–10884–4. - Volume 66 Issue 2
Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish
Fighting Conspiracy Theories Online at Scale
This 2019 project conducted in the US and the UK sought to understand which conspiracy theories are harmful and which are benign, with an eye towards finding ways to combat disinformation and extremism. This case study demonstrates how ethnographic methods led to insights on what "triggered" conspiracy belief, the social and emotional roles conspiracy theories played in believers' lives, and how conspiracy belief was often a reflection of a perso…
Religion, Medicine, Politics, and Practice
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COV…
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
The Association Between Black vs. White Race and 30-Day Hospitalization Among People Diagnosed with Covid-19 Within an Integrated Care Setting: A Cohort Study
Book Forum
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
Sowing “seeds of doubt: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States
We conducted ethnographic research with 31 misinformation creators and consumers in Brazil and the United States before, during, and after a major election to understand consumption and production of election and medical misinformation. This study contributes to research on misinformation ecosystems by focusing on poorly understood “micro-influencers” who create misinformation in peer-to-peer networks. We detail four key tactics that micro-influe…
Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone
Beyond Digital Literacy: Building Youth Digital Resilience Through Existing “Information Sensibility” Practices
Youth media consumption and disordered eating practices have historically been subjects of moral panics, often resulting in protective, deficit-based interventions like content removal. We argue for interventions which instead equip youth to evaluate and manage risks in their online environments, building upon their existing “information sensibility” practices. Drawing upon ethnographic research and intervention testing with 77 participants in th…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)