Boosting the Potency of Resistance: Combining the Motivational Forces of Inoculation and Psychological Reactance.

By Claude H. Miller, Bobi Ivanov, Jeanetta Sims, J. Compton, K. Harrison, Kimberly A. Parker, James L. Parker, Joshua M. Averbeck. 2013

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. S. van der Linden
2. J. Roozenbeek
3. Stephan Lewandowsky
4. Melisa Basol
5. John Cook
6. Thomas Nygren

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1. J. Roozenbeek
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. Ullrich K. H. Ecker
4. S. van der Linden

Citations in the corpus

• Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, background): “Another open question is whether inoculation interacts with psychological reactance (though see Miller et al., 2013).”
• Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation (2021, methodology): “…a random order8: (1) a set of questions about perceived motivational and apprehensive threat adjusted to the context of misinformation about COVID-19 (Miller et al., 2013; Richards and Banas, 2018)9; and (2) the same item rating task that participants completed in the pre-test (i.e. the post-test).”
• Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence (2017, background): “Also of relevance, given that individualism and free-market support are strong drivers of climate attitudes, is the fact that emphasizing the dubious practices of an information source can shed light on how misinformation impinges on people’s freedom to be accurately informed, thus potentially enhan”
• Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects (2020, unknown): “Over the past 50 years, inoculation theory has emerged “as the most consistent and reliable method for conferring resistance to persuasion” (Miller et al., 2013, p. 127).”