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Does Endorsing Mistaken Belief Prior to Its Retraction Render the Correction More or Less Effective?

Ithisuphalap, Jaruda

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2019, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
The motivation for the current study comes from the observation that news stories unfold over time, with initial reports sometimes containing mistaken accounts of the newsworthy outcome that are ultimately revised or corrected. Because facts associated with newsworthy events are accumulated in this piecemeal fashion, readers often have repeated opportunities to reflect upon, discuss, and even endorse belief in these accounts before they learn that initial news reports have been revised or retracted. The nature and extent of this pre-correction processing of the mistaken information could play a role in determining how much people continue to believe in the retracted mistaken information following its correction. The primary goal of the present study was to assess whether endorsing belief in the initially reported, mistaken cause might render a later correction more or less effective. In the current study, participants endorsed belief in the target by either rating how much they believed it caused the outcome (Experiment 1) or rating the probability that the target caused the outcome (Experiment 2). The results showed that endorsing belief in a target cause prior to its retraction (relative to not doing so) rendered the correction more effective. This enhanced correction effect was not observed when participants generated the target information (Experiment 3). Across 3 studies, the results show that the specific way in which people reflect upon and rehearse initial news reports can have important and varied consequences for their resistance to correction.
Maria Zaragoza (Advisor)
Christopher Was (Committee Member)
Amy Sato (Committee Member)
John Dunlosky (Committee Member)
75 p.

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  • Ithisuphalap, J. (2019). Does Endorsing Mistaken Belief Prior to Its Retraction Render the Correction More or Less Effective? [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563877708913629

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ithisuphalap, Jaruda. Does Endorsing Mistaken Belief Prior to Its Retraction Render the Correction More or Less Effective? . 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563877708913629.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ithisuphalap, Jaruda. "Does Endorsing Mistaken Belief Prior to Its Retraction Render the Correction More or Less Effective? ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563877708913629

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)