Prebunking interventions based on the psychological theory of “inoculation” can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures.

By J. Roozenbeek, S. van der Linden, Thomas Nygren. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2020

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This study finds that the online “fake news” game, Bad News, can confer psychological resistance against common online misinformation strategies across different cultures. The intervention draws on ...

Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. S. van der Linden
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. Andreas Vlachos
4. J. Roozenbeek
5. John Cook

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Stephan Lewandowsky
2. Sabrine Amri
3. Esma Aïmeur
4. Gilles Brassard
5. S. van der Linden
6. J. Roozenbeek

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. van der Linden
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. Zhijiang Guo
4. Sabrine Amri
5. Esma Aïmeur
6. Gilles Brassard
7. Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull
8. A. Enders

Citations in the corpus

• Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, methodology): “This notion of “generalized” resistance or a “broad-spectrum” vaccine was further developed in a series of studies in the first author’s laboratory and by Roozenbeek and van der Linden (Roozenbeek & van der Linden Linden, 2018, 2019; Roozenbeek et al., 2020; van der Linden & Roozenbeek, 2020).”
• The different forms of COVID-19 misinformation and their consequences (2020, background): “Instead of correcting misinformed pandemic-related beliefs, communicators and policymakers might consider preventive strategies, such as “pre - bunking” or “inoculation” (Banas & Miller 2013; Banas & Rains, 2010; Roozenbeek et al., 2020).”
• A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking (2021, background): “Another direction is to disseminate countermessaging before misinformation can spread widely; this is also known as pre-bunking, and has been shown to be more effective than post-hoc debunking (van der Linden et al., 2017; Roozenbeek et al., 2020; Lewandowsky and van der Linden, 2021).”
• Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023, background): “…Apuke and Omar 2021; Escolà-Gascón 2021; Wang et al. 2019c; Hart-ley and Vu 2020; Micallef et al. 2020; Pennycook et al. 2020b; Sharma et al. 2020; Roozenbeek et al. 2020b), environmental science (e.g., climate change) (Treen et al. 2020; Lutzke et al. 2019; Lewandowsky 2020; Maertens et al.…”