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(Why) Is misinformation a problem?

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One important aspect that receives less attention is why exactly misinformation is a problem. To adequately address this question, we must first look to its speculated cause(s) and effect(s).
Magda Osman, Zoe Adams, Björn Meder, Christos Bechlivanidis   +3 more
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Repress/redress: What the “war on terror” can teach us about fighting misinformation

, 2021
Misinformation, like terrorism, thrives where trust in conventional authorities has eroded. An informed policy response must therefore complement efforts to repress misinformation with efforts to redress loss of trust.
Lim, G., Abrahams, A.
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Using video and multimodal classroom interaction analysis to investigate how information, misinformation, and disinformation influence pedagogy [PDF]

, 2023
Misinformation is accidentally wrong and disinformation is deliberately incorrect (i.e., deception). This paper uses the Pedagogy Analysis Framework (PAF) to investigate how information, misinformation, and disinformation influence classroom pedagogy. 95
Woolley, M., Riordan, J., Hulbert, S., Bowie, B., Thomas, C., Revell, L.   +5 more
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The effect of misinformation acceptance on COVID-19 prevention behaviors [PDF]

International Journal of Information Science and Management
The acceptance of misinformation about COVID-19 has had irreversible consequences on public health during the pandemic. The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of misinformation acceptance on preventive behaviors related to COVID-19 and
Leila Dehghani, Tahereh Tamimi, Mazyar Ganjoor, Parisa Eskandari   +3 more
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Psychological Inoculation for Credibility Assessment, Sharing Intention, and Discernment of Misinformation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023
BackgroundThe prevalence of misinformation poses a substantial threat to individuals’ daily lives, necessitating the deployment of effective remedial approaches.
Chang Lu, Bo Hu, Qiang Li, Chao Bi, Xing-Da Ju   +4 more
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Meta-perception and Misinformation

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023
Research on political misperceptions is flourishing across disciplines. Literatures on misinformation susceptibility and political group meta-perceptions have arisen independently, both seeking to understand how inaccurate social beliefs of the first and second order respectively contribute to political polarization.
Sean, Bogart, Jeffrey, Lees
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Prebunking interventions based on “inoculation” theory can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures

, 2020
This study finds that the online “fake news” game, Bad News, can confer psychological resistance against common online misinformation strategies across different cultures.
Nygren, Thomas,, Roozenbeek, Jon,, van der Linden, Sander,   +2 more
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Vulnerable to misinformation?

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2019
11 pages, 7 ...
Alireza Karduni, Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Sashank Santhanam, Svitlana Volkova, Dustin Lockhart Arendt, Samira Shaikh, Wenwen Dou   +7 more
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False memory ≠ false memory: DRM errors are unrelated to the misinformation effect

, 2013
The DRM method has proved to be a popular and powerful, if controversial, way to study 'false memories'. One reason for the controversy is that the extent to which the DRM effect generalises to other kinds of memory error has been neither satisfactorily ...
Lambert, K., Katie Lambert, Hartmut Blank, Salmon, K., James Ost, Jones, Georgina, Joanna Davies, Ost, James, Davies, J., Georgina Jones, Kelly Salmon, Blank, Hartmut   +11 more
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India's tangled web of misinformation lies [PDF]

, 2022
A mysterious app, a viral hoax and political rivals engaging in misinformation mudslinging — India is in the grips of a fake news ...
Muralidharan, Sukumar
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