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Abstract
Psychological research has offered valuable insights into how to combat misinformation. The studies conducted to date, however, have three limitations. First, pre-emptive (“prebunking”) and retroactive (“debunking”) interventions have mostly been examined in parallel, and thus it is unclear which of these two predominant approaches is more effective. Second, there has been a focus on misinformation that is explicitly false, but implied misinformation that uses literally true information to mislead is common in the real world. Finally, studies have relied mainly on questionnaire measures of reasoning, neglecting behavioural impacts of misinformation and interventions. To offer incremental progress towards addressing these three issues, we conducted an experiment (N = 735) involving misinformation on fair trade. We contrasted the effectiveness of prebunking versus debunking and the impacts of implied versus explicit misinformation, and incorporated novel measures assessing consumer behaviours (i.e., willingness-to-pay; information seeking; online misinformation promotion) in addition to standard questionnaire measures. In general, both prebunking and debunking reduced misinformation reliance. We also found that individuals tended to rely more on explicit than implied misinformation both with and without interventions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 591-607 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | British Journal of Psychology |
Volume | 113 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 29 Dec 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2022 |
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Combating Misinformation – Designing a Toolkit to Address a Global Problem
Ecker, U. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
27/07/20 → 26/07/24
Project: Research
Research output
- 48 Citations
- 1 Doctoral Thesis
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(How) should we address misinformation?
Tay, L. Q., 2023, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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