Debunking: A Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Efficacy of Messages Countering Misinformation
Psychological Science (Chan, Jones, Hall Jamieson & Albarracín)
"This meta-analysis investigated the factors underlying effective messages to counter attitudes and beliefs based on misinformation. Because misinformation can lead to poor decisions about consequential matters and is persistent and difficult to correct, debunking it is an important scientific and public-policy goal.
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“Messages that simply label the initial information as incorrect may therefore leave recipients unable to remember what was wrong and offer them no new model to understand the information (Johnson & Seifert, 1994; Wilkes & Leatherbarrow, 1988).”
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