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misinformation: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

false information, which can keep influencing reasoning even after it is corrected.

In cognitive psychology, misinformation refers to false information, which can keep influencing reasoning even after it is corrected. This meaning comes from Lewandowsky (2012) in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.[1]

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References

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C. M., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(3), 106-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612451018

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