Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(1)

Опубликована: Март 11, 2025

Abstract An increasing number of real-world interventions aim to preemptively protect or inoculate people against misinformation. Inoculation research has demonstrated positive effects on misinformation resilience when measured immediately after treatment via messages, games, videos. However, very little is currently known about their long-term effectiveness and the mechanisms by which such decay over time. We start proposing three possible models driving resistance then report five pre-registered longitudinal experiments ( N total = 11,759) that investigate psychological inoculation time as well underlying mechanisms. find text-based video-based can remain effective for one month—whereas game-based appear more rapidly—and memory-enhancing booster enhance diminishing counter-misinformation interventions. Finally, we propose an integrated memory-motivation model, concluding researchers would benefit from integrating knowledge cognitive science memory design better counter durably at-scale.

Язык: Английский

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Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2023

An increasing number of real-world interventions aim to preemptively protect or inoculate people against misinformation. Inoculation research has demonstrated positive effects on misinformation resilience when measured immediately after treatment via messages, games, videos. However, very little is currently known about their long-term effectiveness and the mechanisms by which such decay over time. We start proposing three possible models driving resistance then report five pre-registered longitudinal experiments (Ntotal = 11,759) that investigate psychological inoculation time as well underlying mechanisms. find text-based video-based can remain effective for one month—whereas game-based appear more rapidly—and memory-enhancing booster enhance diminishing counter-misinformation interventions. Finally, we propose an integrated memory-motivation model, concluding researchers would benefit from integrating knowledge cognitive science memory design better counter durably at-scale.

Язык: Английский

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The social psychology of conspiracy theories: Key insights and future challenges

Advances in experimental social psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The social determinants of misinformation

BMJ, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. r782 - r782

Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2025

Язык: Английский

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‘I'd Probably Scroll by’: An Exploration of Young People's Views on Spotting and Stopping Misinformation

Children & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 25, 2025

ABSTRACT Misinformation is one of the defining challenges our era. Many young people are online for multiple hours a day and exposed to vast amounts misinformation. However, there limited research exploring their understanding what misinformation whether they feel equipped spot challenge it. The aim current study was qualitatively explore people's views on Participants were N = 37 pupils aged from 11 14 who participated in focus groups. Data analysed using thematic analysis. Three main themes identified: awareness misinformation, detection stopping Although participants aware felt that spotting it an intuitive skill relied others help identify They did not empowered platforms had key role spread. This has implications design interventions.

Язык: Английский

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Gamified inoculation reduces susceptibility to misinformation from political ingroups

Опубликована: Апрель 30, 2024

Psychological inoculation interventions, which seek to pre-emptively build resistance against unwanted persuasion attempts, have shown promise in reducing susceptibility misinformation. However, as many people receive news from popular, mainstream ingroup sources (e.g., a left-wing person consuming media) may host misleading or false content, and be more persuasive, the impact of source effects on interventions demands attention. In this experiment, we find that although consumers are susceptible (non-political) misinformation political publishers pre-intervention, gamified successfully improves veracity discernment reduces both outgroup publishers.

Язык: Английский

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A signal-detection framework for misinformation interventions

Nature Human Behaviour, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 7, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Supporting inclusive debate on Advanced Air Mobility: An evaluation

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 136, С. 104471 - 104471

Опубликована: Окт. 30, 2024

Язык: Английский

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A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 115, С. 104656 - 104656

Опубликована: Июнь 20, 2024

In a world barreling down into worsening climate crisis, negative persuasive attacks to necessary policies are major threats the public's support of governmental mandates mitigate change. To protect against such attacks, here we introduce and investigate effect treatment heterogeneity trust inoculation, psychological inoculation strategy designed around influence as key social dimension persuasion. Across three preregistered studies, in one Swiss state (N = 389), seven European countries 2805), United States 3586), mega-analysis 6697), provide evidence that inoculating citizens with trustworthiness energy stakeholders protects citizens' for renewable multiple (δ 0.16). Whereas baseline did not moderate effects, selectively protected most susceptible i.e., participants high biospheric values. Study 3 showed rather than simple message, is responsible protection from incoming attacks. Our findings demonstrate may serve an easily implementable, scalable umbrella engender modest but significant

Язык: Английский

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Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Ноя. 19, 2024

Recent years have seen a surge in research on why people fall for misinformation and what can be done about it. Drawing framework that conceptualizes truth judgments of true false information as signal-detection problem, the current article identifies three inaccurate assumptions public scientific discourse misinformation: (1) People are bad at discerning from information, (2) partisan bias is not driving force misinformation, (3) gullibility to main factor underlying beliefs. Counter these assumptions, we argue quite good responses pervasive strong, skepticism against belief-incongruent much more pronounced than belief-congruent information. These conclusions significant implications person-centered interventions tackle

Язык: Английский

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