Improving processing fluency to encourage family health information seeking: The mediating role of communication efficacy.

Drawing from the metacognitive literature, this experimental study examines how the relative ease of retrieving information (i.e. processing fluency) impacts individuals' efficacy about engaging in family health discussions and interpersonal information seeking intention across two health topics: family organ donation status and family health history.

Using a signal detection approach to understand the impacts of processing fluency and efficacy on accuracy in misinformation detection.

This experiment ( = 1,019) examined how a state of processing fluency, induced through either an easy or difficult task (reading a simple vs. complex message or recalling few vs. many examples) impacted participants' ability to subsequently detect misinformation.

When Fears Come True: An Experimental Approximation of Patient Comprehension During Initial Cancer Diagnoses.

An experiment ( = 624 U.S. adults) was designed to approximate how well patients attend to information during a cancer-related doctor visit.

Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing.

Over 30,000 field experiments with and showed that readers prefer simpler headlines (e.g., more common words and more readable writing) over more complex ones.

Leafcutter ants enhance microbial drought resilience in tropical forest soil.

We conducted a research campaign in a neotropical rainforest in Costa Rica throughout the drought phase of an El-Nino Southern Oscillation event to determine microbial community dynamics and soil C fluxes. Our study included nests of the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes, as soil disturbances made by these ecosystem engineers may influence microbial drought response. Drought decreased the diversity of microbes and the abundance of core microbiome taxa, including Verrucomicrobial bacteria and Sordariomycete fungi.