Billions of people across the globe use social media to acquire and share information. A large and growing body of research examines how consuming online content affects what people know. The present research investigates a complementary, yet previously unstudied question: how might sharing...

Consumers increasingly turn to the Internet for information prior to making important decisions. Recent research shows that consumers often misattribute online search results to their own memories, and believe they already knew what they actually just found. The present research, however, is the...

Many consumers suffer from low levels of financial literacy, and attempts to increase this dimension of consumer expertise via educational interventions are typically unsuccessful. We argue that many of these apparent deficits are caused by the distribution of responsibility for information and...