Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate
Fake news can generate memory distortions and influence people's behavior. Within the framework of the great debates, the tendency to generate false memories from fake news seems to be modulated by the ideological alignment of each individual. This effect has been observed mainly around issues...
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| author | Candela S. Leon Matías Bonilla Luis I. Brusco Cecilia Forcato Facundo Urreta Benítez |
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| description | Fake news can generate memory distortions and influence people's behavior. Within the framework of the great debates, the tendency to generate false memories from fake news seems to be modulated by the ideological alignment of each individual. This effect has been observed mainly around issues involving large sectors of society, but little is known about its impact on smaller-scale discussions focused on more specific populations. In this work we examine the formation of false memories from fake news in the debate between psychological currents in Argentina. For this, 326 individuals aligned to psychoanalysis (PSA) or Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) observed a series of news (12 true and 8 fabricated). The EBP group remembered or believed more fake news that damaged PSA. They also remembered with greater precision the statements of the news that harmed their own school, than those referring to others. These results could be understood as the product of an imbalance in the commitment between the different parties, since the group that proposes the paradigm shift (EBP) exhibited a congruence effect, while the group whose orientation is hegemonic in this field (PSA) did not show any effect of ideological alignment. The fact that the congruence effect is manifested to some extent in settings as relevant as the education of mental health professionals, highlights the need to move towards more careful practices in the consumption and production of media. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1dee733444874189a7029915c05d22c92023-12-21T07:38:22ZengElsevierIBRO Neuroscience Reports2667-24212023-12-01152430Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debateCandela S. Leon0Matías Bonilla1Luis I. Brusco2Cecilia Forcato3Facundo Urreta Benítez4Laboratorio de Sueño y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratorio de Sueño y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCENECON, Centro de Neuropsiquiatría y Neurología de la Conducta (CENECON), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratorio de Sueño y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratorio de Sueño y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Innocence Project Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Correspondence to: Laboratorio de Sueño y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Iguazú 341, Capital Federal, 1437 Buenos Aires, Argentina.Fake news can generate memory distortions and influence people's behavior. Within the framework of the great debates, the tendency to generate false memories from fake news seems to be modulated by the ideological alignment of each individual. This effect has been observed mainly around issues involving large sectors of society, but little is known about its impact on smaller-scale discussions focused on more specific populations. In this work we examine the formation of false memories from fake news in the debate between psychological currents in Argentina. For this, 326 individuals aligned to psychoanalysis (PSA) or Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) observed a series of news (12 true and 8 fabricated). The EBP group remembered or believed more fake news that damaged PSA. They also remembered with greater precision the statements of the news that harmed their own school, than those referring to others. These results could be understood as the product of an imbalance in the commitment between the different parties, since the group that proposes the paradigm shift (EBP) exhibited a congruence effect, while the group whose orientation is hegemonic in this field (PSA) did not show any effect of ideological alignment. The fact that the congruence effect is manifested to some extent in settings as relevant as the education of mental health professionals, highlights the need to move towards more careful practices in the consumption and production of media.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667242123000507Fake newsEncodingConsolidationCongruence effectDisclaimer |
| spellingShingle | Candela S. Leon Matías Bonilla Luis I. Brusco Cecilia Forcato Facundo Urreta Benítez Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate IBRO Neuroscience Reports Fake news Encoding Consolidation Congruence effect Disclaimer |
| title | Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| title_full | Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| title_fullStr | Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| title_short | Fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| title_sort | fake news and false memory formation in the psychology debate |
| topic | Fake news Encoding Consolidation Congruence effect Disclaimer |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667242123000507 |
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