SaTC: CORE: Small: When and from Whom Reminder-based Corrections of Everyday Misinformation Improve Memory and Belief Accuracy

SaTC：核心：小：何时以及由谁对日常错误信息进行基于提醒的纠正可提高记忆和信念准确性

• 批准号: 2224565
• 负责人: Chris Wahlheim
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; CORE; Small; When; Whom

Misinformation shared via news and social media platforms has negative consequences. For example, misinformation about safe and effective COVID vaccines has reduced intent to receive them. Websites have been designed to counteract misinformation by indicating contradictory information. But this approach may not always be effective because reminding people of misinformation can make it more believable. The project team is evaluating a reminding technique that recently improved memory and belief accuracy in internet news headlines in college students who were immediately tested. The project advances areas of social and behavioral sciences by revealing the mental processes that improve memory and belief accuracy for everyday news. This could benefit public health and national defense by establishing whether this implementable method counteracts health-based and other misinformation that can be propagated by foreign sources. This project supports the education of a diverse student body by being conducted at a university that emphasizes student research training and attracts students from many backgrounds. Both undergraduate and graduate students are training in theoretical and practical approaches to research and analysis that will prepare them for STEM careers.The current project is examining whether benefits of misinformation reminders generalize to various situation in representative US samples. Specifically, the project is testing if the benefits extend from: presentation and test delays of minutes to days, news headlines with text and images to podcasts and news videos, and partisan-neutral to partisan-specific information sources varying in perceived credibility. Participants are first being exposed to real and fake internet news story headlines and then learning real news corrections that sometimes appear after participants are reminded of fake news. Participants’ recall accuracy and beliefs in recalled details are then being tested. The findings will illuminate when, how, and from whom reminders of everyday internet-based misinformation effectively promote accurate memory and beliefs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

通过新闻和社交媒体平台分享的错误信息会产生负面影响。例如，关于新冠疫苗安全有效的错误信息降低了接种疫苗的意愿。网站的设计是为了通过显示矛盾的信息来抵消错误信息。但这种方法可能并不总是有效的，因为提醒人们错误的信息可以使它更可信。该项目团队正在评估一种提醒技术，该技术最近提高了大学生在互联网新闻标题中的记忆和信念准确性，这些大学生立即接受了测试。该项目通过揭示提高日常新闻记忆和信念准确性的心理过程来推进社会和行为科学领域。通过确定这种可实施的方法是否可以抵消外国来源传播的基于健康的错误信息和其他错误信息，这可能有利于公共卫生和国防。该项目通过在一所强调学生研究培训并吸引来自多种背景的学生的大学进行，支持多样化学生群体的教育。本科生和研究生都在接受研究和分析的理论和实践方法的培训，这将使他们为STEM职业做好准备。目前的项目是研究错误信息提醒的好处是否适用于美国代表性样本的各种情况。具体来说，该项目正在测试的好处是否包括：演示和测试延迟几分钟到几天，新闻标题的文字和图像播客和新闻视频，以及党派中立的党派特定的信息来源在感知的可信度方面有所不同。参与者首先接触到真实的和虚假的互联网新闻故事标题，然后学习真实的新闻更正，这些更正有时会在参与者被提醒假新闻后出现。然后测试参与者的回忆准确性和对回忆细节的信念。研究结果将阐明何时、如何以及从谁那里提醒每天基于互联网的错误信息有效地促进准确的记忆和信念。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。