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Political communication

the finding that warnings about misinformation can lower belief in accurate news as well, so that true information is discounted after a false-news alert.

In political communication, tainted truth effect refers to the finding that warnings about misinformation can lower belief in accurate news as well, so that true information is discounted after a false-news alert. This meaning comes from Freeze (2020) in Political Behavior.[1]

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belief4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs freeze3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs illusory truth effect1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Freeze, M., Baumgartner, M., Bruno, P., Gunderson, J. R., Olin, J., Ross, M. Q., & Szafran, J. (2020). Fake Claims of Fake News: Political Misinformation, Warnings, and the Tainted Truth Effect. Political Behavior, 43(4), 1433-1465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09597-3

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