Misinformation and Its Correction

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C. M., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(3), 106-131.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2012

DOI

10.1177/1529100612451018

Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612451018

Cited from

cognitive_science

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Differential Decay
  • Retraction-resistant misinformation: a published claim and its later retraction, where citation networks carry the original long after the retraction has decayed from awareness, propagating a claim its source repudiated.

Mechanisms

• Audience Inference, Emotion, Memory, and Action Experiment
  • … real effects rather than intent or structure, and it catches the two things everyone else misses: the emotional and stigma load, and the caveat that fades from memory while the image persists — the continued-influence effect, where a vivid claim keeps shaping judgment after its correction has been forgotten.

    This sourceDefines the continued-influence effect as corrected misinformation continuing to shape reasoning.

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