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September 30, 2025Information Technology and People

Mechanism and long-term effects of psychological inoculation on individuals’ attitudes towards commercial misinformation: experimental research

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XHXi HanKLKe LiaoYCYuan Chen

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Overview

Experimental research shows inoculation enhances resistance to misinformation in individuals, indicating effective strategies.

Key Points

  • Inoculation significantly enhances individuals' resistance to misinformation, reducing its perceived credibility.
  • Cognitive inoculation and affective inoculation have varying impacts, with affective inoculation boosting threat perception more effectively.
  • Self-efficacy in identifying misinformation moderates the effect of perceived threat on credibility, supporting inoculation.
  • Resistance to misinformation lasts over six weeks, but no significant difference between inoculation methods was found.

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Han et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dc1e358a7d58c25ebb178bhttps://doi.org/10.1108/itp-10-2024-1340
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