31.10.2014 |
blog categorie(s) - Political Psychology
written by Alina Feinholdt
Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects
keywords:
misinformation / belief persistence / retraction / skepticism
Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects
Politicians, corporations, journalists and even scientists sometimes do it – they tell people things that later on turn out to be incorrect. Yet, getting rid of this so-called misinformation is often easier said than done as false beliefs are particularly sticky. In this blog, I zoom in on the current state of the art in misinformation research. / more