ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
False memory and COVID-19: How people fall for fake news about COVID-19 in digital contexts.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Debunking COVID-19 vaccine misinformation with an audio drama in Ghana, a randomized control trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Detecting Malingered COVID-19 Symptoms Using the Verifiability Approach.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- A Survey on the Criteria Used to Judge (Fake) News in Italian Population.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Question framing affects accurate-inaccurate discrimination in responses to sharing questions, but not in responses to accuracy questions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Examining the association between social media fatigue, cognitive ability, narcissism and misinformation sharing: cross-national evidence from eight countries.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
People are often exposed to fake news. Such an exposure to misleading information might lead to false memory creation. We examined whether people can form false memories for COVID-19-related fake news. Furthermore, we investigated which individual factors might predict false memory formation for fake news. In two experiments, we provided participants with two pieces of COVID-19-related fake news along with a non-probative photograph. In Experiment 1, 41% (
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