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Yael Rozenblum; Keren Dalyot; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Recent research has highlighted the role of science education in reducing beliefs in science-related misinformation and stressed its potential positive impact on decision-making and behavior. This study implemented the Elaboration Likelihood Model to explore how individuals' abilities and motivation interact with the type of processing of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Decision Making
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Robert W. Danielson; Benjamin C. Heddy; Onur Ramazan; Gan Jin; Kanvarbir S. Gill; Danielle N. Berry – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Misinformation has been extensively studied as both maliciously intended propaganda and accidentally experienced incorrect assumptions. We contend that "conceptual contamination" is the process by which the learning of incorrect information interferes, pollutes, or otherwise disrupts the learning of correct information. This is similar…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Propaganda, Deception, Misconceptions