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Paige L. Kemp; Vanessa M. Loaiza; Colleen M. Kelley; Christopher N. Wahlheim – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
The efficacy of fake news corrections in improving memory and belief accuracy may depend on how often adults see false information before it is corrected. Two experiments tested the competing predictions that repeating fake news before corrections will either impair or improve memory and belief accuracy. These experiments also examined whether…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Beliefs, Misinformation
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Roman Abel; Julian Roelle; Marc Stadtler – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated how the sequence of presenting social media sources in an unsupervised inductive learning setting supports the acquisition of source evaluation skills in two different age groups. Participants were 63 upper and 59 lower secondary students. They had to identify characteristics of trustworthiness while studying sources labeled as…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria, Skill Development, Credibility