The impact of mind wandering on the recall of central ideas

Reading Medium and Epistemic Emotions in the Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation

“…One is that this study was conducted face-toface (as was necessary for the paper condition) whereas the previous study was conducted remotely (online, asynchronous; Ecker et al, 2020). Although not assessed in either study, it is possible that there was less mind-wandering in the face-to-face study than the remote one (Cotton et al, 2024), and that mind-wandering may have interfered with updating the misinformation with corrected information (Miller et al, 2023;Smallwood, 2011;Stanley et al, 2022). Another possibility is that widespread concern about COVID-19 misinformation and subsequent development of interventions may have improved individuals' skills in updating misinformation with corrected information (e.g., Blair et al, 2024;Czerniak et al, 2023).…”

“…Although medium did not appear to have any concerning effects on the continued influence effect, it is not clear why the misinformation ratings were generally low. Future studies examining the particular methods of this study that may have contributed to low misinformation ratings, such as the face-to-face data collection reducing mind wandering (Cotton et al, 2024;Miller et al, 2023;Stanley et al, 2022) or better noting of updated information due to interventions from COVID-19 (e.g., Blair et al, 2024;Czerniak et al, 2023), would be helpful to better understand the issues. In addition, prior knowledge or beliefs were not considered as the news articles were about fictional events.…”