Can Invalid Information Be Ignored When It Is Detected?

IF 4.8 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-14 DOI:10.1177/09567976241231571
Adam T Ramsey, Yanjun Liu, Jennifer S Trueblood
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With the rapid spread of information via social media, individuals are prone to misinformation exposure that they may utilize when forming beliefs. Over five experiments (total N = 815 adults, recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk in the United States), we investigated whether people could ignore quantitative information when they judged for themselves that it was misreported. Participants recruited online viewed sets of values sampled from Gaussian distributions to estimate the underlying means. They attempted to ignore invalid information, which were outlier values inserted into the value sequences. Results indicated participants were able to detect outliers. Nevertheless, participants' estimates were still biased in the direction of the outlier, even when they were most certain that they detected invalid information. The addition of visual warning cues and different task scenarios did not fully eliminate systematic over- and underestimation. These findings suggest that individuals may incorporate invalid information they meant to ignore when forming beliefs.

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检测到无效信息后是否可以忽略?
随着社交媒体信息的快速传播,人们很容易接触到错误信息,并在形成信念时加以利用。在五次实验中(总人数 = 815 名成人,通过美国亚马逊 Mechanical Turk 招募),我们研究了当人们自己判断定量信息被误报时,是否会忽略这些信息。在线招募的参与者查看从高斯分布中采样的数值集,以估算基本均值。他们试图忽略无效信息,即插入数值序列的离群值。结果表明,参与者能够发现离群值。然而,即使在最确定自己检测到了无效信息的情况下,参与者的估计值仍然偏向离群值的方向。增加视觉警告提示和不同的任务情景并不能完全消除系统性高估和低估。这些研究结果表明,个体在形成信念时,可能会纳入他们本想忽略的无效信息。
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Psychological Science PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Psychological Science, the flagship journal of The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society), is a leading publication in the field with a citation ranking/impact factor among the top ten worldwide. It publishes authoritative articles covering various domains of psychological science, including brain and behavior, clinical science, cognition, learning and memory, social psychology, and developmental psychology. In addition to full-length articles, the journal features summaries of new research developments and discussions on psychological issues in government and public affairs. "Psychological Science" is published twelve times annually.
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