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Psychological Inoculation Against Fake News

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Psychological Inoculation Against Fake News

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Psychological Inoculation Against Fake News book

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Psychological Inoculation Against Fake News book

BySander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek
BookThe Psychology of Fake News

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
Imprint Routledge
Pages 23
eBook ISBN 9780429295379
OA Funder University of Basel

ABSTRACT

This chapter explores several proposed solutions to the problem of online misinformation, commonly referred to as “fake news”. We identify four categories of such solutions: algorithmic, legislative, corrective, and psychological. We explore the latter category in detail. Specifically, we investigate the possibility of inoculation against misinformation by preemptively exposing individuals to weakened examples of common strategies used in the production of fake news. We outline our program of research and revisit three of our studies testing the cognitive “inoculation” approach, including two game-based interventions. We provide empirical evidence that serious games can be leveraged as a novel psychological intervention to combat fake news across the political spectrum. Theoretical and practical implications for inoculation theory and research on fake news are discussed.

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