How warnings about false claims become recommendations

By I. Skurnik, Carolyn Yoon, Denise C. Park, Norbert Schwarz. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Cognition, Persuasion and Decision Making in Older Consumers (2005, background): “Skurnik et al. (2005) found that trying to discredit false information that is already familiar can in fact backfire and paradoxically increase belief in its truth, and older consumers are particularly susceptible to this effect.”
Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns (2007, background): “Adapted from Skurnik, Yoon, Park, and Schwarz (2005) , 2005 Journal of Consumer Research, Inc.”
Age-related differences in responses to affective vs. rational ads for hedonic vs. utilitarian products (2007, neutral): “(e.g., Law et al. (1998); Skurnik et al. (2005) ).”
Age-Related Differences in Responses to Emotional Advertisements (2005, background): “0093-5301/2005/3203-0001$10.00”
Positive Effects of Negative Publicity: When Negative Reviews Increase Sales (2010, background): “This explanation, however, would suggest that being reviewed (regardless of valence) should always boost sales, which the results show is not the case.”
When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest (2011, background): “…“anchor” their perceptions on the information they receive initially and then make inadequate adjustments, even if they learn that the initial information was inaccurate or irrelevant (Chapman and Bornstein 1996; Hastie, Schkade, and Payne 1999; Skurnik et al. 2005; Tversky and Kahneman 1974).”
When Debunking Scientific Myths Fails (and When It Does Not) (2016, background): “Furthermore, results by Skurnik et al. (2005, 2007) suggest that this difference will be more pronounced after a delay (Hypothesis 2b).”
Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? (2017, methodology): “After readings the scenarios, participants completed an unrelated distractor task for approximately 30 minutes, following Skurnik et al. (2007). Finally, participants completed the questionnaire assessing their understanding of the scenarios.”