The continued influence of misinformation in memory: What makes a correction effective?

By Colleen Seifert. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Can’t We Just Disregard Fake News? The Consequences of Exposure to Inaccurate Information (2018, background): “Some evidence even suggests that a lack of confidence about what happened in a given situation can increase endorsements of disconfirmed causes (Lewandowsky, Ecker, Seifert, Schwarz, & Cook, 2012; Seifert, 2002).”
Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media‐Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory (2013, background): “They are so useful, in fact, that they often outlive the evidence on which they were based (c.f., Seifert, 2002).”
Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? (2017, background): “by an alternative causal account of the event, which is a factor known to reliably reduce reliance on misinformation (e.g., Ecker, Lewandowsky, & Tang, 2010; H. Johnson & Seifert, 1994; Seifert, 2002).”
Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation (2016, background): “However, studies have shown that misinformation can continue to affect a person’s inferences even when she explicitly acknowledges that they are false (Ecker, Lewandowsky, Fenton, & Martin, 2014; Lewandowsky et al, 2012; Ross, Lepper, & Hubbard, 1975; Seifert, 2002).”
He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation (2015, background): “…and counterbalanced causes and having all relevant information communicated by the same source, we attempted to control for the factors of plausibility and source credibility, which are known to affect the processing of misinformation and retractions (see Guillory & Geraci, 2013; Seifert, 2002).”
Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections (2018, background): “This is known as the continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE; Johnson & Seifert, 1994; for reviews, see Lewandowsky, Ecker, Seifert, Schwarz, & Cook, 2012; Seifert, 2002; Swire & Ecker, 2018).”
How to unring the bell: A meta-analytic approach to correction of misinformation (2018, background): “If the information is retracted without providing an alternative explanation, people ’ s understanding of a topic may not feel coherent, leading them to deny the new information and reinstate the beliefs that existed before the retraction (Seifert, 2002).”