Correcting Misinformation in News Stories: An Investigation of Correction Timing and Correction Durability
Correcting Misinformation in News Stories: An Investigation of Correction Timing and Correction Durability
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.04.001
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Zaragoza, Maria S.
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作者：
Rich, Patrick R.;Zaragoza, Maria S.
对一个正在展开的新闻故事的早期报道有时包含不完整或错误的信息，这些信息后来被更新或纠正。研究表明，被收回的信息继续以微妙的方式影响信念和推理。本研究试图评估矫正的效果如何与时间的流逝相互作用。我们评估了延迟2天进行纠正，相对于在错误信息后几分钟提供纠正，是否会影响纠正的效果。在同样的实验中，我们还通过评估同一个人在几个时间点上对纠正信息的信念，来评估纠正是否会导致信念的持久变化。虽然我们没有发现纠正时间有影响的证据，但我们发现了明确的证据，证明纠正后的信念并不持久。在三个实验中，尽管参与者对错误信息有持续的记忆，但在纠正错误信息后的两天内，他们对错误信息的信任度增加了。
Early reports of an unfolding news story sometimes contain incomplete or mistaken information that is later updated or corrected. Research shows that retracted information continues to influence beliefs and inferential reasoning in sometimes subtle ways. The present study sought to assess how the efficacy of corrections interacts with the passage of time. We assessed whether delaying a correction by 2 days, relative to providing the correction minutes after the mistaken information, influenced the efficacy of the correction. In the same experiments, we also assessed whether corrections lead to durable changes in belief, by assessing belief in the corrected information in the same individuals at several points in time. Although we found no evidence that correction timing mattered, we found clear evidence that corrected beliefs were not durable. In three experiments, belief in the mistaken information increased over the 2 days following a correction despite participants' continued memory for the correction.