皇家华人

Title:聽An Inductive Learning Intervention to Improve News Veracity Discernment

础产蝉迟谤补肠迟:听Across three preregistered experiments聽(total聽N聽= 1,135), we tested whether an inductive learning (IL) intervention improved participants鈥� ability to distinguish between true and false news. IL involves learning categories by observing or classifying exemplars. Therefore, in this research, IL involved observing true and false news headlines and classifying them as either 鈥渢rue鈥� or 鈥渇alse鈥�, with immediate feedback on accuracy. In each experiment, participants took part in either an IL or control condition, the latter of which involved no training or playing Pac-Man. To test participants鈥� ability to distinguish between true and false news headlines, a final test was administered where all participants rated the veracity of true and false news headlines, which were different from those used during IL, on a scale from 1 (high confidence false) to 6 (high confidence true). In Experiment 1 (N聽= 214), the IL intervention significantly improved participants鈥� news veracity discernment compared to control, but the Bayesian evidence was only anecdotal. In Experiment 2 (N聽= 483), we incorporated game-design elements into the IL intervention, including performance-contingent badges. Unexpectedly, the effect of the IL intervention decreased. We reasoned that, because the IL intervention involved easy-to-hard training, the provision of performance-contingent badges inadvertently made participants more aware of their declining performance. This awareness may have undermined their motivation to learn as the training progressed. Therefore, in Experiment 3 (N聽= 438), we implemented hard-to-easy training instead, which resulted in the IL intervention significantly improving participants鈥� news veracity discernment, now with strong Bayesian evidence.

Host :聽David Shanks