Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media.


Journal

Science advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Titre abrégé: Sci Adv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101653440

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Aug 2022
Historique:
entrez: 24 8 2022
pubmed: 25 8 2022
medline: 25 8 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing people about how they might be misinformed, but its scalability has been elusive both at a theoretical level and a practical level. We developed five short videos that inoculate people against manipulation techniques commonly used in misinformation: emotionally manipulative language, incoherence, false dichotomies, scapegoating, and ad hominem attacks. In seven preregistered studies, i.e., six randomized controlled studies (

Identifiants

pubmed: 36001675
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abo6254
pmc: PMC9401631
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

eabo6254

Subventions

Organisme : European Research Council
ID : 101020961
Pays : International

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Auteurs

Jon Roozenbeek (J)

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Sander van der Linden (S)

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Beth Goldberg (B)

Jigsaw (Google LLC), Mountain View, CA, USA.

Steve Rathje (S)

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Stephan Lewandowsky (S)

School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

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