{"pk":28793,"title":"Source reliability and the continued influence effect of misinformation: A Bayesiannetwork approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Misinformation, and its impact on society, has become anincreasingly topical field of study of late. A body of literatureexists that suggests misinformation can retain an influenceover beliefs despite subsequent retraction, known as theContinued Influence Effect (CIE). Researchers have arguedthis to be irrational. However, we show using a Bayesianformalism why this argument is overly assumptive, pointingto (previously overlooked) considerations of reliability of, anddependence between, misinforming and retracting sources.We demonstrate that lay reasoners intuitively endorseassumptions that demarcate CIE as a rational process, basedon the fact misinformation precedes its retraction. Moreover,despite using established CIE materials, we further upturn theapplecart by finding participants show CIE, and appropriatelypenalize the reliabilities of contradicting sources.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Continued Influence Effect; Negation;Reliability; Dependency; Reasoning"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15p7s3kb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jens","middle_name":"Koed","last_name":"Madsen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""},{"first_name":"Saoirse","middle_name":"Connor","last_name":"Desai","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"Toby","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pilditch","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28793/galley/18664/download/"}]}