The Role of Familiarity in Correcting Inaccurate Information.

摘要: People frequently continue to use inaccurate information in their reasoning even after a credible retraction has been presented. This phenomenon is often referred as the continued influence effect of misinformation. The repetition original misconception within could contribute this phenomenon, it inadvertently make "myth" more familiar-and familiar likely be accepted true. From dual-process perspective, familiarity-based acceptance myths most occur absence strategic memory processes. Thus, we examined factors known affect whether processes can utilized: age, detail, and time. Participants rated belief various statements unclear veracity, facts were subsequently affirmed retracted. then rerated either immediately or delay. We compared groups young older participants, manipulated amount detail presented affirmative corrective explanations, well retention interval between encoding retrieval attempt. found that (a) adults over age 65 worse at sustaining postcorrection inaccurate, (b) greater level explanatory promoted sustained change, (c) fact affirmations change comparison with myth retractions course 1 week (but not 3 weeks), supports notion familiarity indeed driver effects. (PsycINFO Database Record