The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence¶
Wood, T., & Porter, E. (2019). The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence. Political Behavior.
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- Backfire Effect
- The strong form — outright reversal of belief direction following disconfirmation — has not replicated reliably across large-scale studies; Wood and Porter's 2019 experiments across thousands of subjects found near-zero true backfire cases
This sourceWood and Porter's five experiments (over 10,100 subjects, 52 issues), which found no corrections capable of triggering backfire and concluded factual backfire is far more tenuous than prior research suggested.
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“we found no corrections capable of triggering backfire, despite testing precisely the kinds of polarized issues where backfire should be expected”
- The strong form — outright reversal of belief direction following disconfirmation — has not replicated reliably across large-scale studies; Wood and Porter's 2019 experiments across thousands of subjects found near-zero true backfire cases
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