138. Misinformation | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2018-02-27

What’s the harm in a little white lie? Well, if you tell enough of them, you may be able to steer an electorate.

-Links for the Curious-

“Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News” by David Z. Hambrick, Madeline Marquardt - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cognitive-ability-and-vulnerability-to-fake-news/ 

‘Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions (Keersmaecker & Roets, 2017) - 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289617301617 

Knowing the Truth is not enough: The Resilience of Discredited Information - http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/4/7/2/p204726_index.html 

Beliefs Don’t Always Persevere: How political figures are punished when positive information about them is discredited (Cobb et al, 2008) - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/positive-misinformation.pdf 

Frequency and the Conference of Referential Validity (Hasher & Goldstein, 1977) - https://web.archive.org/web/20160515062305/http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/hasher/PDF/Frequency%20and%20the%20conference%20Hasher%20et%20al%201977.pdf 


“Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion“ by Robert Cialdini - http://elibrary.bsu.az/books_400/N_232.pdf 


“Did Russia Affect The 2016 Election? It’s Now Undeniable” by Molly McKew - https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/

From Paul Kennedy, it's possible that the backfire effect isn't as universal as previously believed - https://www.poynter.org/news/fact-checking-doesnt-backfire-new-study-suggests