Good News about Bad News: Gamified Inoculation Boosts Confidence and Cognitive Immunity Against Fake News

Recent research has explored the possibility of building attitudinal resistance against online misinformation through psychological inoculation. The inoculation metaphor relies on a medical analogy: by pre-emptively exposing people to weakened doses of misinformation cognitive immunity can be confer...

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Main Authors: Melisa Basol, Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Cognition
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Online Access:https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/91

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