Terrorists brought down the plane! - No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information
Terrorists brought down the plane! - No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information
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DOI：
10.1080/17470218.2010.497927
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Apai, Joe
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作者：
Ecker, Ullrich K. H.;Lewandowsky, Stephan;Apai, Joe
众所周知，人们经常继续依赖最初的错误信息，即使这些信息后来被纠正，即使纠正本身被记住。这篇文章调查了材料的情绪性对人们对纠正错误信息的贴现能力的影响。重点是适度的情绪水平，与现实世界的新闻报道引起的情绪水平相当。研究表明，不稳定性经常对推理和记忆产生影响，但这种影响的普遍性仍不清楚。在三个实验中，参与者阅读了一份虚构的飞机失事报告，该报告最初与情绪化的原因（恐怖袭击）或情绪化的中性原因（恶劣天气）有关。这一最初的归因之后，又撤回并提出了另一个原因（油箱故障）。这些情景明显影响了参与者自我报告的感受。然而，所有三个实验都表明，情绪性并不影响错误信息的持续影响。
It is well known that people often continue to rely on initial misinformation even if this information is later corrected and even if the correction itself is remembered. This article investigated the impact of emotionality of the material on people's ability to discount corrected misinformation. The focus was on moderate levels of emotionality comparable to those elicited by real-world news reports. Emotionality has frequently been shown to have an impact upon reasoning and memory, but the generality of this influence remains unclear. In three experiments, participants read a report of a fictitious plane crash that was initially associated with either an emotionally laden cause (terrorist attack) or an emotionally more neutral cause (bad weather). This initial attribution was followed by a retraction and presentation of an alternative cause (faulty fuel tank). The scenarios demonstrably affected participants' self-reported feelings. However, all three experiments showed that emotionality does not affect the continued influence of misinformation.