The widespread prevalence and persistence of misinformation in contemporary societies,
such as the false belief that there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism, is a …

Abstract Information presented in news articles can be misleading without being blatantly
false. Experiment 1 examined the effects of misleading headlines that emphasize secondary …

Abstract Information that initially is presumed to be correct, but that is later retracted or
corrected, often continues to influence memory and reasoning. This occurs even if the …

16 The Knowledge Revision Components (KReC) Framework: Processes and Mechanisms
Page 1 In formal and informal settings we continually encode, use, integrate, and manipulate …

Many children struggle to learn to read, and these difficulties can persist well into adulthood.
To address this problem, researchers have investigated the processes that underlie reading …

Detecting that two or more propositions do not cohere is the first step in comprehending
conflicting information. Whether or not readers detect a conflict can be explained with …

Recent research has shown that for some topics, messages to refute and revise
misconceptions may backfire. The current research offers one possible account for this …

Studies of discourse processing focus on the ways in which readers and listeners
comprehend language. The linguistic segments of interest to the field tend to be larger than …

In two experiments, we examined the role of discrepancy on readers' text processing of and
memory for the sources of brief news reports. Each story included two assertions that were …

The present set of 7 experiments systematically examined the effectiveness of adding causal
explanations to simple refutations in reducing or eliminating the impact of outdated …