The Psychology of Misinformation—Towards A Theory-driven Understanding

该项目旨在发展错误信息效应的心理学理论。错误信息即使在纠正之后也会影响人们的记忆、推理和决策——因此，它对科学和社会构成了重大挑战。通过将系统实验与理论驱动的计算模型相结合，该项目将努力同时考虑个人层面的认知和社会文化背景的影响。预计这种新颖的综合方法将大大扩展我们对错误信息效应的理解，并且这一理论进展将导致制定具体的沟通策略，以减少错误信息对社会的影响。

The project aims to develop a psychological theory of misinformation effects. Misinformation influences people’s memory, reasoning and decision-making even after corrections – it thus poses a significant challenge for science and society. Through the combination of systematic experimentation with theory-driven computational modelling, the project will strive to concurrently consider individual-level cognition and the impact of sociocultural context. It is anticipated that this novel integrative approach will substantially expand our understanding of misinformation effects, and that this theoretical progress will result in the formulation of specific communication strategies to reduce the impact of misinformation on society.