Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

IF 21.4 1区 心理学 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES Nature Human Behaviour Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI:10.1038/s41562-024-02023-2
Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Puneet Bhargava, Hause Lin, Rocky Cole, Beth Goldberg, Stephan Lewandowsky, David G. Rand
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Misinformation is a major focus of intervention efforts. Psychological inoculation—an intervention intended to help people identify manipulation techniques—is being adopted at scale around the globe. Yet the efficacy of this approach for increasing belief accuracy remains unclear, as prior work uses synthetic materials that do not contain claims of truth. To address this issue, we conducted five studies with 7,286 online participants using a set of news headlines based on real-world true/false content in which we systematically varied the presence or absence of emotional manipulation. Although an emotional manipulation inoculation did help participants identify emotional manipulation, there was no improvement in participants’ ability to tell truth from falsehood. However, when the inoculation was paired with an intervention that draws people’s attention to accuracy, the combined intervention did successfully improve truth discernment (by increasing belief in true content). These results provide evidence for synergy between popular misinformation interventions.

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接种和准确性提示结合使用可提高准确性辨别能力,但不能单独使用
误导是干预工作的重点。心理接种--一种旨在帮助人们识别操纵手法的干预措施--正在全球范围内被大规模采用。然而,这种方法在提高信念准确性方面的效果仍不明确,因为之前的工作使用的是不包含真理主张的合成材料。为了解决这个问题,我们对 7286 名在线参与者进行了五项研究,使用了一组基于真实世界真/假内容的新闻标题,其中我们系统地改变了情感操纵的存在与否。虽然情感操纵接种确实有助于参与者识别情感操纵,但参与者辨别真假的能力并没有提高。然而,当接种措施与一种能吸引人们注意准确性的干预措施搭配使用时,综合干预措施确实成功地提高了辨别真假的能力(通过增加对真实内容的信念)。这些结果为流行的错误信息干预措施之间的协同作用提供了证据。
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Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour Psychology-Social Psychology
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期刊介绍: Nature Human Behaviour is a journal that focuses on publishing research of outstanding significance into any aspect of human behavior.The research can cover various areas such as psychological, biological, and social bases of human behavior.It also includes the study of origins, development, and disorders related to human behavior.The primary aim of the journal is to increase the visibility of research in the field and enhance its societal reach and impact.
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