{"pk":27977,"title":"Some misinformation is more easily countered: An experiment on the continuedinfluence effect","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Information initially presented as a likely cause of an eventbut turns out to be incorrect can affect people’s reasoningdespite being clearly corrected – a phenomenon known as thecontinued influence effect of misinformation. The presentwork extends previous findings showing that misinformationthat implies a likely cause of an adverse outcome is moreresistant to correction than misinformation that explicitlystates a likely cause. Participants either read a reportdescribing a fire or a crash. The difference between impliedand explicitly stated misinformation was replicated with thefire scenario, which has been commonly used in continuedinfluence research. There was little evidence of a continuedinfluence of misinformation for the (novel) crash scenario.The results constrain the generalizability of the continuedinfluence effect and suggest that corrections that clearlyinvalidate initial misinformation can be effective.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Misinformation; Continued Influence;Correction; Reasoning; Inference; Memory"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sb9k1kb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Saoirse","middle_name":"Conner","last_name":"Desai","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"Stain","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reimers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27977/galley/17615/download/"}]}