ArticleGlobal challenges (Hoboken, NJ)2017
Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change.
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137 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Disinformation as an obstructionist strategy in climate change mitigation: a review of the scientific literature for a systemic understanding of the phenomenon.Open research Europe · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- Psychological Inoculation for Credibility Assessment, Sharing Intention, and Discernment of Misinformation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of an online vaccine misinformation game for Arabic-speaking Australians: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- A prosocial fake news intervention with durable effects.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation through an Online Game Based on the Inoculation Theory: Analyzing the Mediating Effects of Perceived Threat and Persuasion Knowledge.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- How do we raise media bias awareness effectively? Effects of visualizations to communicate bias.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Blueprint of a smokescreen: Introducing the validated climate disinformation corpus for behavioural research on combating climate disinformation.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta-conspiracy framing.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- The gateway (mis)belief model: How misinformation impacts perceptions of scientific consensus and attitudes towards climate change.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Multinomial models of the repetition-based truth effect: Investigating the role of prior knowledge.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Own and others' confidence in social information use.iScience · 2026Article
- PROTOCOL: Interventions Targeting Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation for Reducing and Countering Violent Extremism: A Systematic Review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
- "We Follow the Disinformation": Conceptualizing and Analyzing Fact-Checking Cultures Across Countries.The international journal of press/politics · 2026Article
- The Role of Humor in Inoculation Theory.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Exploring the Relationship Between Susceptibility to Health Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy in Poland.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Characterising concerns and misinformation shaping global HIV vaccine confidence and demand: a structured literature search and content analysis.BMJ global health · 2026Review
- Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress.Communications sustainability · 2026Article
- Unpacking the Risk of Misinformation: A Communication-Based Critique.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
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Abstract
Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision-making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested-interest groups to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change through organized "disinformation campaigns," identifying ways to effectively engage with the public about the issue across the political spectrum has proven difficult. A growing body of research suggests that one promising way to counteract the politicization of science is to convey the high level of normative agreement ("consensus") among experts about the reality of human-caused climate change. Yet, much prior research examining public opinion dynamics in the context of climate change has done so under conditions with limited external validity. Moreover, no research to date has examined how to protect the public from the spread of influential misinformation about climate change. The current research bridges this divide by exploring how people evaluate and process consensus cues in a polarized information environment. Furthermore, evidence is provided that it is possible to pre-emptively protect ("inoculate") public attitudes about climate change against real-world misinformation.
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