The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

UKH Ecker, S Lewandowsky, J Cook… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

Examining the role of information integration in the continued influence effect using an event segmentation approach

JA Sanderson, S Farrell, UKH Ecker - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Misinformation regarding the cause of an event often continues to influence an individual's
event-related reasoning, even after they have received a retraction. This is known as the …

Misinformation and the sins of memory: False-belief formation and limits on belief revision.

EJ Newman, B Swire-Thompson, UKH Ecker - 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Misinformation has the potential to negatively affect both individual decision-making and the
common good. For example, belief in misinformation can have a negative impact on public …

[HTML][HTML] Relative source credibility affects the continued influence effect: Evidence of rationality in the CIE

CV Hey, ML Schaper, UJ Bayen - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Continued Influence Effect (CIE) is the phenomenon that retracted information
often continues to influence judgments and inferences. The CIE is rational when the source …

Executive function and the continued influence of misinformation: A latent-variable analysis

P McIlhiney, GE Gignac, UKH Ecker, BL Kennedy… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Misinformation can continue to influence reasoning after correction; this is known as the
continued influence effect (CIE). Theoretical accounts of the CIE suggest failure of two …

Fluid intelligence but not need for cognition is associated with attitude change in response to the correction of misinformation

F Hutmacher, M Appel, B Schätzlein… - … Research: Principles and …, 2024 - Springer
Misinformation can profoundly impact an individual's attitudes—sometimes even after the
misinformation has been corrected. In two preregistered experiments (N 1= 355, N 2= 725) …

Continued influence of false accusations in forming impressions of political candidates

MS Cohen, V Halewicz, E Yildirim, JW Kable - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Previous work has shown that false information affects decision-making even after being
corrected, a phenomenon known as “continued influence effects”(CIEs). Using mock social …

Does Mud Really Stick? No Evidence for Continued Influence of Misinformation on Newly Formed Person Impressions

A Mickelberg, B Walker, U Ecker, PDL Howe… - Collabra …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Despite robust evidence that misinformation continues to influence event-related reasoning
after a clear retraction, evidence for the continued influence of misinformation on person …

The long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: an integrated theory of memory, threat, and motivation

R Maertens - 2023 - repository.cam.ac.uk
For over 60 years, inoculation theory has been a key framework to understand resistance to
persuasion, yet many critical questions have remained unanswered. This dissertation aims …

Sensitivity to misinformation retractions in the continued influence paradigm: Evidence for stability

P McIlhiney, GE Gignac, M Weinborn… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has consistently shown that misinformation can continue to affect inferential
reasoning after a correction. This phenomenon is known as the continued influence effect …