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SUMMARY:Do Contemporary Psychological Inoculation Interventions Psychologi
 cally Inoculate against Misinformation? - Dan Loughnan\; Radboud Universit
 y
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CONTACT:Miriam Remshard
DESCRIPTION:The societal need to address belief in misinformation has insp
 ired a range of promising psychological inoculation interventions to reduc
 e its perceived credibility. This research simultaneously applies several 
 recent extensions to psychological inoculation theory along with a testing
  paradigm that is new to the field. Two meta-analyses and numerous narrati
 ve reviews offer assessments of the interventions\, but they are not well 
 suited to answering a critical question: are they generally efficacious in
  psychologically inoculating against the persuasive influence of misinform
 ation?\n         This month brings the release of an internal meta-analysi
 s of relevant studies by the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab (Simchon
  et al.\, in press\; k = 33) and the final preparatory stages of a systema
 tic review of characteristics of studies in this field (Loughnan et al.\, 
 in preparation\; k = 72). Taken together\, these works offer a statistical
 ly robust answer to the enduring question of efficacy along with a framewo
 rk for assessing the research from which the answer is drawn. The aim of t
 his talk is to synthesize the findings of both analyses to determine the s
 trength of the current evidence that these contemporary inoculation interv
 entions psychologically inoculate against misinformation.
LOCATION:Psychology Classroom\, Department of Psychology\, Downing Site\, 
 Cambridge
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