Fake news reminders and veracity labels differentially benefit memory and belief accuracy for news headlines.

ABSTRACT: Fake news exposure can negatively affect memory and beliefs, thus sparking debate about whether to repeat misinformation during corrections. The once-prevailing view was that repeating misinformation increases its believability and should thus be avoided. However, misinformation reminders have more recently been shown to enhance memory and belief accuracy. We replicated such reminder benefits in two experiments using news headlines and compared those benefits against the effects of veracity labeling. Specifically, we examined the effects of labeling real news corrections to enhance conflict salience (Experiment 1) and labeling fake news on its debut to encourage intentional forgetting (Experiment 2). Participants first viewed real and fake news headlines with some fake news labeled as fals

SUBMITTER: Kemp PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9758464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature