ArticleJournal of applied research in memory and cognition2023
Listening to Misinformation while Driving: Cognitive Load and the Effectiveness of (Repeated) Corrections.
Article in Journal of applied research in memory and cognition, 2023. 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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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Changing beliefs or changing behavior? Understanding the belief-to-behavior process and intervening to curb the impact of misinformation.Journal of consumer psychology : the official journal of the Society for Consumer Psychology · 2026Article
- Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy.Current opinion in psychology · 2024Review
- The inhibitory impact of collaboration on the continued influence effect of misinformation.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Listening to Misinformation while Driving: Cognitive Load and the Effectiveness of (Repeated) Corrections.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2023Article
- Overcome the fragmentation in online propaganda literature: the role of cultural and cognitive sociology.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Review
- Misinformation and the Sins of Memory: False-Belief Formation and Limits on Belief Revision.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Corrected misinformation can continue to influence inferential reasoning. It has been suggested that such continued influence is partially driven by misinformation familiarity, and that corrections should therefore avoid repeating misinformation to avoid inadvertent strengthening of misconceptions. However, evidence for such familiarity-backfire effects is scarce. We tested whether familiarity backfire may occur if corrections are processed under cognitive load. Although misinformation repetition may boost familiarity, load may impede integration of the correction, reducing its effectiveness and therefore allowing a backfire effect to emerge. Participants listened to corrections that repeated misinformation while in a driving simulator. Misinformation familiarity was manipulated through the number of corrections. Load was manipulated through a math task administered selectively during correction encoding. Multiple corrections were more effective than a single correction; cognitive load reduced correction effectiveness, with a single correction entirely ineffective under load. This provides further evidence against familiarity-backfire effects and has implications for real-world debunking.
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