The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions

By Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. 2019

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/65eb15ca42184864c8d46e4f4672bcff047648da

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Citations in the corpus

• Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories? (2020, background): “If, then, we can generate preventive and corrective strategies that reduce uncertainty, increase perceived control, or promote a positive selfimage, for example, we may be able to limit the power of people’s predispositions to construct conspiratorial accounts of major events or deny expert informat”
• The Muted Consequences of Correct Information about Immigration (2019, unknown): “Our treatments were simple and direct but may not have done enough to create an environment in which people would be receptive to factual corrections, such as by affirming individuals’ self-worth (Nyhan and Reifler 2016).”