The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence
Political Behavior (Wood & Porter)
"Can citizens heed factual information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological attachments? The 'backfire effect,' described by Nyhan and Reifler (Polit Behav 32(2):303–330, 2010), says no: rather than simply ignoring factual information, presenting respondents with facts can compound thei
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“Among liberals, 85% of issues saw a significant factual response to correction, among moderates, 96% of issues, and among conservatives, 83% of issues.”
“This does not lead us to conclude that backfire is categorically impossible.”
“No backfire was observed for any issue, among any ideological cohort.”
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