The Effects of a Brief Epistemic Cognition and Metacognition Intervention on the Continued Influence Effect

Autor/in	Cartiff, Brian Mitchell
Titel	The Effects of a Brief Epistemic Cognition and Metacognition Intervention on the Continued Influence Effect
Quelle	(2023), (415 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	979-8-3795-5586-3
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Epistemology; Metacognition; Political Attitudes; Accuracy; Decision Making; Information Sources; Deception; Bias; Cognitive Processes; Social Problems; Intervention; Feedback (Response); Drug Use; Beliefs; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Erkenntnistheorie; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Information source; Informationsquelle; Täuschung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Belief; Glaube; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	Individuals rely on accurate information to make important decisions, but in the current environment the vast amount of misinformation present in society is complicating people's thinking. Many people fall prey to a cognitive bias called the continued influence effect, which occurs when they continue to use misinformation even when they have seen and can acknowledge a correction of the inaccurate messaging. Researchers have started to examine this phenomenon in the context of socioscientific issues such as vaccination, but it is not apparent that it occurs when people engage with less politicized topics. Debunking interventions have also largely been ineffective at helping people avoid the bias. This suggests a need to investigate prebunking interventions to combat the continued influence effect. In this dissertation, I conducted three studies examining if people exhibited the continued influence effect when dealing with misinformation about the topic of antioxidant supplements. In the first study, novel materials were reviewed by ten individuals who provided feedback on their accessibility and clarity. In the second study, a randomized control trial (n = 440), the continued influence effect was not detected, but the manipulation of beliefs by misinformation was. After revising the materials, a third study was conducted (n = 572) to examine the efficacy of a prebunking epistemic cognition and metacognition intervention at attenuating the occurrence of the continued influence effect. Again, the bias was not detected. The findings indicated that the continued influence effect may only occur with more politicized and controversial socioscientific issues. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01