Is the COVID-19 Fake News game good news? Testing whether creating and disseminating fake news about vaccines in a computer game reduces people's belief in anti-vaccine arguments

Rędzio, Anna Magdalena; Izydorczak, Kamil; Muniak, Paweł; Kulesza, Wojciech; Doliński, Dariusz

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103930

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“…For example, interventions that aim to improve true and fake news discrimination by teaching people explicit rules, a dominant approach in the literature, may not be successful. Indeed, several interventions that provide explicit guidance for identifying fake news have been shown to decrease belief in both true and fake news (Clayton et al, 2020; Modirrousta-Galian & Higham, 2023; Rędzio et al, 2023), suggesting that they only affect response bias. This is concerning since decreased belief in true news can have potentially harmful consequences, such as vaccine hesitancy (Dubé et al, 2013).…”

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“…More worryingly, general warnings about misleading information on social media have been shown to reduce people’s belief in both true and fake news (Clayton et al, 2020). Similarly, Bad News and Go Viral!, two popular gamified inoculation interventions, have been shown to cause people to rate both true and fake news as less reliable or more manipulative (Modirrousta-Galian & Higham, 2023; Rędzio et al, 2023). Failure to believe credible information could be just as harmful as believing false information.…”

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Wordless wisdom: The dominant role of tacit knowledge in true and fake news discrimination.

Modirrousta-Galian,

Higham,

Seabrooke

2024

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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We would like to thank Denis Drieghe and Guido Maiello for their reading of the manuscript and valuable suggestions.The data, analytic code, and materials needed to replicate this study are available on OSF (https://osf.io/qfe3g/). This study was preregistered (https://aspredicted.org/n7v2z.pdf).We have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Our work was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. The funding source had no other involvement other than financial support.

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Wordless wisdom: The dominant role of tacit knowledge in true and fake news discrimination.

Modirrousta-Galian,

Higham,

Seabrooke

2024

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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“…For example, interventions that aim to improve true and fake news discrimination by teaching people explicit rules, a dominant approach in the literature, may not be successful. Indeed, several interventions that provide explicit guidance for identifying fake news have been shown to decrease belief in both true and fake news (Clayton et al, 2020;Rędzio et al, 2023), suggesting that they only affect response bias. This is concerning since decreased belief in true news can have potentially harmful consequences, such as vaccine hesitancy (Dubé et al, 2013).…”

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“…More worryingly, general warnings about misleading information on social media have been shown to reduce people's belief in both true and fake news (Clayton et al, 2020). Similarly, Bad News and Go Viral!, two popular gamified inoculation interventions, have been shown to cause people to rate both true and fake news as less reliable or more manipulative Rędzio et al, 2023).…”

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Wordless Wisdom: The Dominant Role of Tacit Knowledge in True and Fake News Discrimination

Modirrousta-Galian¹,

Higham²,

Seabrooke³

2023

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In this preregistered study, we investigated the type of knowledge people use to discriminate between true and fake news by asking participants (N = 327 Prolific users residing in the United States) to rate the veracity of different news headlines and indicate what decision strategy they used to make each rating (guess, intuition, familiarity, prior knowledge, rule, or other). We found that participants discriminated well between true and fake news headlines, and predominantly chose decision strategies that suggested they were using tacit knowledge (knowledge that is not easily articulated) rather than explicit knowledge (knowledge that is easily articulated). For example, guess and intuition were chosen 63% of the time, and participants’ discrimination was good even when they claimed to be guessing. The fact that tacit knowledge formed the dominant basis of participants’ discriminative ability speaks to the types of interventions that are likely to be successful in improving this skill.

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Countering misinformation through psychological inoculation

van der Linden

2024

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Is the COVID-19 Fake News game good news? Testing whether creating and disseminating fake news about vaccines in a computer game reduces people's belief in anti-vaccine arguments

Cited by 4 publications

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Wordless wisdom: The dominant role of tacit knowledge in true and fake news discrimination.

Wordless wisdom: The dominant role of tacit knowledge in true and fake news discrimination.

Wordless Wisdom: The Dominant Role of Tacit Knowledge in True and Fake News Discrimination

Countering misinformation through psychological inoculation

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