Melisa Basol
Biographic Data
| ID | 382925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melisa Basol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Basol |
| SIGNATURE | BASOL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1480-6462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories
Although there has been unprecedented attention to inoculation theory in recent years, the potential of this research has yet to be reached. Inoculation theory explains how immunity to counter‐attitudinal messages is conferred by preemptively exposing people to weakened doses of challenging information. The theory has been applied in a number of contexts (e.g., politics, health) in its 50+ year history. Importantly, one of the newest contexts for…
Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments.
170), participants played either Bad News (inoculation group) or Tetris (gamified control group) and rated the reliability of news headlines that either used a misinformation technique or not. We found that participants rate fake news as significantly less reliable after the intervention. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants at regular intervals to explore the longevity of this effect and found that the inoculation effect remains stable for …
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against Covid-19 misinformation
Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered ( n1 = 1771 and n2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two 'prebunking' interventions aimed at improving people's ability to spot manipulation techniques commonly used in COVID-19 misinformation across three different languages (English, French and German). We find that Go Viral!, a novel five-minute browser game, (a) incre…
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against Covid-19 misinformation
Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered ( n1 = 1771 and n2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two 'prebunking' interventions aimed at improving people's ability to spot manipulation techniques commonly used in COVID-19 misinformation across three different languages (English, French and German). We find that Go Viral!, a novel five-minute browser game, (a) incre…
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories
Although there has been unprecedented attention to inoculation theory in recent years, the potential of this research has yet to be reached. Inoculation theory explains how immunity to counter‐attitudinal messages is conferred by preemptively exposing people to weakened doses of challenging information. The theory has been applied in a number of contexts (e.g., politics, health) in its 50+ year history. Importantly, one of the newest contexts for…
Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments.
170), participants played either Bad News (inoculation group) or Tetris (gamified control group) and rated the reliability of news headlines that either used a misinformation technique or not. We found that participants rate fake news as significantly less reliable after the intervention. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants at regular intervals to explore the longevity of this effect and found that the inoculation effect remains stable for …
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against Covid-19 misinformation
Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered ( n1 = 1771 and n2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two 'prebunking' interventions aimed at improving people's ability to spot manipulation techniques commonly used in COVID-19 misinformation across three different languages (English, French and German). We find that Go Viral!, a novel five-minute browser game, (a) incre…
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
Misinformation (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · Internet privacy (2 works) · Media Influence and Health (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works)