When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions

By Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media (2020, background): ““Disputed” or “Rated false” tags could be less effective when a person is viewing a headline with which they are inclined to agree (e.g., Nyhan and Reifler 2010; Kahan et al. N.d.).”
Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence (2017, background): “For example, in one study, conservatives became more likely to believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) immediately before the war of 2003 after reading retractions clarifying that no WMDs existed at the time [11].”
Beyond News Contents: The Role of Social Context for Fake News Detection (2017, background): “First, people may be misled by fake news and accept false beliefs [18, 21].”
Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “A simple measure of the effect of beliefs on behavior that is 16In some cases information interventions not only fail to correct, but even increase misperceptions among the targeted ideological group (Nyhan and Reifler, 2010).”
Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information (2017, background): “This body of work suggests that, paradoxically, our behavioral mechanisms to cope with information overload may make online information markets less meritocratic and diverse, increasing the spread of misinformation [45, 18] and making us vulnerable to manipulation [48, 21].”
The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, background): “Despite some early evidence that correction checking could backfire and increase belief in false content [86], recent work has shown that these backfire effects are extremely uncommon and are not a cause for serious concern [87,88].”
Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation (2015, methodology): “Relying extensively on the theory of partisan motivated reasoning, previous research has shown that partisanship is related to inaccurate political beliefs (Nyhan & Reifler, 2010; Weeks & Garrett, 2014).”
The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011, background): “Au14 The citation Nyhan and Reifler (2010) has been changed as Nyhan and Feifler (2010) to match the author name/date in the reference list.”
False Information on Web and Social Media: A Survey (2018, background): “But once debunking information reaches the rumor spreaders, do they stop spreading it or does it ‘back-fire’, as observed in in-lab settings [68] where corrections led to an increase in misperception? Several empirical studies on web-based false information suggest that debunking rumors is in fact e”
Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media‐Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory (2013, methodology): “…to counterargue attitude-discrepant political messages (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Taber & Lodge, 2006) means that exposure to fact checking can serve to activate attitude-consistent evidence, potentially reinforcing support for the disputed claim (Byrne & Hart, 2009; Nyhan & Reifler, 2010).”