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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Frequency of False Information Repetition Does Not Increase Sharing of Covid-19 Misinformation

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Maitry Mahida
    William Paterson University of New Jersey
  • Natalie Obrecht
    William Paterson University

Abstract

Previous work has examined how Covid-19 related misinformation is spread (Pennycook et al., 2020), but has not tested the role of repeating headlines at different frequencies. suggest participants were able to differentiate between false information and true information even when the repetition frequency of false information was high.

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