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Het vasthouden aan incorrecte informatie bij het verwerken van nieuwsberichten

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Abstract

Previous studies have found that the influence of incorrect or obsolete information in news articles on the situation models that readers build during reading is hard to eradicate from memory by discrediting information. The experiment described here confirms this effect. Subjects read a series of messages, and in the experimental conditions one message is corrected. The performance on an inference judgement task showed that subjects in the experimental conditions more often reasoned on the basis of the incorrect (discredited) scenario than subjects in the control condition, who did not receive the incorrect information. It also appeared that a correction that replaces the incorrect fact by a plausible causal alternative, rather than simply negating misinformation, did not improve the performance. Finally, also repeating a correction did not improve the performance, which suggests the plausibility of a rejection process: information that contradicts a previously constructed situation model is apparently neglected.

How to Cite:

Van Oostendorp, H. & Bonebakker, C., (1996) “Het vasthouden aan incorrecte informatie bij het verwerken van nieuwsberichten”, Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap 24(1), 57–74.