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ArticleJournal of educational psychology2025

The truth sandwich format does not enhance the correction of misinformation.

Briony Swire-Thompson, Lucy Butler, David N Rapp

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Article in Journal of educational psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Briony Swire-ThompsonDepartment of Psychology, Network Science Institute, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University.
Lucy ButlerDepartment of Psychology, Network Science Institute, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University.
David N RappDepartment of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

Funding

Cancer misinformation on social media and its correctionR00CA248720 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI SWIRE-THOMPSON, BRIONY · 2023 to 2024
$494k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA248720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The "truth sandwich" correction format, in which false information is bookended by factual information, has frequently been presented as an optimal method for correcting misinformation. Despite recurring recommendations, there is little empirical evidence for enhanced benefits. In two pre-registered experiments (total

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PMID40860910
PMCPMC12377696

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