MA Amazeen - Human Communication Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Although research on misinformation and corrections has recently proliferated, no systematic structure has guided the examination of conditions under which misinformation is …
Evaluating the truthfulness of new information is a difficult and complex task. Notably, there is currently no unified theoretical framework that addresses the questions of (1) how …
PR Rich, MS Zaragoza - Journal of experimental psychology …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
The piecemeal reporting of unfolding news events can lead to the reporting of mistaken information (or misinformation) about the cause of the newsworthy event, which later needs …
NM Krause, I Freiling… - The ANNALS of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholarship on (mis) information does not easily translate into recommendations for policy- makers and policy influencers who wish to judge the accuracy of science-related truth …
Recently, the Surgeon General released an “Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment” to confront health misinformation (Office of the Surgeon General, 2021), and a …
MA Cacciatore - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
A summary of the public opinion research on misinformation in the realm of science/health reveals inconsistencies in how the term has been defined and operationalized. A diverse set …
We define scientific misinformation as publicly available information that is misleading or deceptive relative to the best available scientific evidence and that runs contrary to …
Past research suggests that people continue believing retracted misinformation more when it is consistent versus inconsistent with their attitudes. However, the psychological …