The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines¶
Ecker, U. K. H. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
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Domain-specific¶
- Headline-Body Mismatch
- Headline-body mismatch is the information-design failure in which a headline makes a stronger, narrower, broader, or causally different claim than the article body supports, so that the artefact as published carries different truth-conditions depending on whether a reader consumes only the headline or reads the body — and because most readers consume only the headline, most of the audience acquires a belief the published evidence does not warrant
This sourceExperimental demonstration that misleading news headlines bias readers' memory, inferential reasoning and impressions, leaving them unable to correct the initial misconception the headline installed.
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“We demonstrate that misleading headlines affect readers’ memory, their inferential reasoning and behavioral intentions, as well as the impressions people form of faces.”
- Headline-body mismatch is the information-design failure in which a headline makes a stronger, narrower, broader, or causally different claim than the article body supports, so that the artefact as published carries different truth-conditions depending on whether a reader consumes only the headline or reads the body — and because most readers consume only the headline, most of the audience acquires a belief the published evidence does not warrant
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