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

通过新闻和社交媒体平台分享的错误信息会产生负面后果。例如，关于安全有效的COVID疫苗的错误信息降低了接受这些疫苗的意愿。网站被设计成通过显示相互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会让它更可信。该项目团队正在评估一种提醒技术，该技术最近改善了大学生在互联网新闻标题中的记忆和信念准确性，这些学生立即接受了测试。该项目通过揭示改善日常新闻记忆和信念准确性的心理过程，推动了社会和行为科学领域的发展。通过确定这种可实施的方法是否能抵消基于健康的错误信息和其他可能由外国来源传播的错误信息，这可能有利于公共健康和国防。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，支持对不同学生群体的教育。本科生和研究生都在接受理论和实践方法的培训，进行研究和分析，为他们的STEM职业生涯做准备。目前的项目是研究错误信息提醒的好处是否适用于具有代表性的美国样本中的各种情况。具体地说，该项目正在测试好处是否延伸到：演示和测试延迟从几分钟到几天，文字和图像的新闻标题到播客和新闻视频，以及在感知可信度方面不同的党派中立到党派特定的信息源。参与者首先接触到真实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。然后对参与者回忆细节的准确性和信念进行测试。这些发现将阐明何时、如何以及从谁那里提醒日常基于互联网的错误信息有效地促进准确的记忆和信念。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.