The Implied Truth Effect¶
Pennycook, G., Bear, A., Collins, E. T., & Rand, D. G. (2020). The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings. Management Science, 66(11), 4944-4957.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Rumor Verification Notice
- Labeling some claims as unverified can make the unlabeled ones seem more trustworthy by contrast — the implied truth effect — so a notice program can backfire on exactly the content it never got to.
This sourceFinds that warning labels on a subset of false headlines increase perceived accuracy of unlabeled headlines, the implied truth effect.
- Labeling some claims as unverified can make the unlabeled ones seem more trustworthy by contrast — the implied truth effect — so a notice program can backfire on exactly the content it never got to.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Confirmed. This work's DOI resolves to a registered record, which fixes its identity. That is all it fixes.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
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