The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information

IF 2.8 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Myrto Pantazi, Olivier Klein, Mikhail Kissine
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While, by default, people tend to believe communicated content, it is also possible that they become more vigilant when personal stakes increase. A lab (N = 72) and an online (N = 284) experiment show that people make judgements affected by explicitly tagged false information and that they misremember such information as true – a phenomenon dubbed the ‘truth bias’. However, both experiments show that this bias is significantly reduced when personal stakes – instantiated here as a financial incentive – become high. Experiment 2 also shows that personal stakes mitigate the truth bias when they are high at the moment of false information processing, but they cannot reduce belief in false information a posteriori, that is once participants have already processed false information. Experiment 2 also suggests that high stakes reduce belief in false information whether participants’ focus is directed towards making accurate judgements or correctly remembering information truthfulness. We discuss the implications of our findings for models of information validation and interventions against real-world misinformation.

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真相偏见的致命弱点?高度的个人利害关系降低了对虚假信息的脆弱性
虽然在默认情况下,人们倾向于相信传播的内容,但当个人利害关系增加时,他们也可能会变得更加警惕。一项实验室实验(72 人)和一项在线实验(284 人)表明,人们的判断会受到明确标记的虚假信息的影响,他们会把这些信息误记为真实信息--这种现象被称为 "真实偏差"。然而,这两项实验都表明,当个人利害关系--在这里体现为经济激励--变得很高时,这种偏差就会明显减少。实验 2 还表明,当个人利害关系在处理虚假信息时处于高位时,会减轻真实偏差,但在事后,即参与者已经处理了虚假信息之后,个人利害关系却不能减轻对虚假信息的相信程度。实验 2 还表明,无论参与者的注意力是集中在做出准确判断还是正确记忆信息的真实性上,高利害关系都会减少对虚假信息的相信。我们将讨论我们的发现对信息验证模型和针对真实世界错误信息的干预措施的影响。
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期刊介绍: Topics covered include, among others, intergroup relations, group processes, social cognition, attitudes, social influence and persuasion, self and identity, verbal and nonverbal communication, language and thought, affect and emotion, embodied and situated cognition and individual differences of social-psychological relevance. Together with original research articles, the European Journal of Social Psychology"s innovative and inclusive style is reflected in the variety of articles published: Research Article: Original articles that provide a significant contribution to the understanding of social phenomena, up to a maximum of 12,000 words in length.
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