Text-mining the signals of climate change doubt.
This study examines organized climate skepticism, focusing specifically on the discourse produced by conservative think tanks in the United States. It provides a systematic overview of contrarian literature by compiling a comprehensive…
Can’t We Just Disregard Fake News? The Consequences of Exposure to Inaccurate Information
This study explores the impact of exposure to inaccurate information on individuals’ thoughts and actions, showing that even when people have the knowledge to reject falsehoods, inaccuracies can still influence their decisions…
Fool me twice: The consequences of reading (and rereading) inaccurate information
This paper examines how readers process inaccuracies in texts, particularly when the content contradicts well-known historical events. Two experiments revealed that readers take longer to process inaccurate information but this difficulty is…
Updating accounts following a correction of misinformation
This research explores how corrected misinformation affects anaphoric inferences during reading. Participants read stories with either corrected misinformation or no misinformation, then judged the appropriateness of anaphoric referents. Initially, corrections of misinformation…
Misleading postevent information and memory for events: Arguments and evidence against memory impairment hypotheses
This paper challenges the claim that post event misinformation alters memory of an original event, arguing that previous studies used flawed methods to assess this effect. The authors introduce a more suitable…
Not wallowing in misery – retractions of negative misinformation are effective in depressive rumination
This paper investigates the continued influence effect, where people continue relying on misinformation after it has been retracted, particularly when it aligns with their pre-existing worldview. The study focuses on depressive rumination,…
Do people keep believing because they want to? Preexisting attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation.
This paper explores how misinformation influences memory and reasoning, particularly about preexisting attitudes. Two experiments tested whether reliance on misinformation and the effectiveness of retractions are shaped by attitudes, using scenarios involving…
Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction.
This paper investigates how the strength of both encoding and retraction of misinformation affects its continued influence on memory and reasoning. The study finds that while stronger retractions can reduce the continued…
How stories in memory perpetuate the continued influence of false information
This paper examines the continued influence effect, where people continue to use misinformation in reasoning even after learning it’s false. The study finds that corrected misinformation has a stronger impact on beliefs…
Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity
This paper examines how people often misjudge the distribution of opinions within their group, primarily due to the tendency to equate familiar opinions with prevalent ones, even if only one group member…
