The Continued Influence Effect - Why do memories of misinformation persist in our minds?

Описание: Have you ever continued to believe misinformation even after you learn that it’s false? This is called the continued influence effect. In today’s video I explain how it works with regards to the formation of memories, then offer some advice for how we can overcome it.

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Notes and Additional Resources:

This source says that detailed refutations are more effective than simple rebuttals, and that trusted entities like government agencies and reliable news sources are more effective at getting the message across than a person’s peers - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

I drew a lot on this article from Nature Reviews Psychology that, along with the continued influencen effect, discusses the reasons that we believe misinformation - https://www.nature.com/articles/s4415...

This article from Nature Pubic Health Emergency Collection demonstrates the role that psychological discomfort plays in our resistance to correcting information - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Another article on the continued influence effect -
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...

Episode of This American Life on the MSG myth - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/...

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