Teach a Person to Think: Inoculation Against Failure to Engage in Actively Open-Minded Thinking Improves Truth Discernment and Reduces Conspiracy Beliefs

Psychological inoculation against the strategies used to spread misinformation has proved a promising intervention against misinformation susceptibility. In the current set of studies, we develop a new technique to inoculate individuals against failure to engage in actively open-minded thinking. In turn, this can reduce various forms of misinformation susceptibility.