When Corrections Fail

Nyhan, B., & Reifler, J. (2010). When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions. Political Behavior, 32(2), 303-330.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

Volume

32

Issue

2

Pages

303-330

DOI

10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2

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communication_media_studies

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Echo Chamber
  • Naming this self-sealing property explains the otherwise puzzling fact that exposing an echo chamber to contrary evidence frequently strengthens its convictions rather than weakening them.

    This sourceDocuments the backfire effect, where contrary evidence can in some cases strengthen rather than weaken entrenched beliefs.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract documents isolated "backfire effect" instances where a correction increased misperceptions in the targeted ideological group, but it neither reports that this happens frequently nor names an explanatory self-sealing property.

    “We also document several instances of a “backfire effect” in which corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.”

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Domain-specific

• Backfire Effect
  • The defining study is Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler's 2010 "When Corrections Fail."

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions | Political Behavior | Springer Nature Link”

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