ABSTRACT

Prior work has found that early corrections are often more effective than corrections encountered sometime after exposure to misinformation. However, these studies have generally considered only brief delays between misinformation exposure and correction, and do not explore processing style as a potential moderator of correction timing. We conducted a two-wave online experiment randomly assigning participants to receive corrections either shortly after exposure or approximately one week later. We find that both immediate and delayed corrections influenced belief accuracy and policy support, but immediate corrections were no more influential than delayed corrections, contrary to earlier findings. In addition, processing style had no moderating effect on the influence of correction timing.

摘要

先前的研究发现，早期纠正往往比接触错误信息后一段时间的纠正更有效。然而，这些研究通常只考虑了错误信息暴露和纠正之间的短暂延迟，并且没有探索处理方式作为纠正时间的潜在调节因素。我们进行了两轮在线实验，随机分配参与者在暴露后不久或大约一周后接受纠正。我们发现立即修正和延迟修正都会影响信念的准确性和政策支持，但立即修正的影响力并不比延迟修正更大，这与之前的发现相反。此外，加工方式对校正时机的影响没有调节作用。