Political Misinformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Jerit (0000-0002-7982-9959, Stony Brook University), Yangzi Zhao (Stony Brook University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-94 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-032814 |
| OpenAlex | W4249407388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
| References cited | 101 |
Misinformation occurs when people hold incorrect factual beliefs and do so confidently. The problem, first conceptualized by Kuklinski and colleagues in 2000, plagues political systems and is exceedingly difficult to correct. In this review, we assess the empirical literature on political misinformation in the United States and consider what scholars have learned since the publication of that early study. We conclude that research on this topic has developed unevenly. Over time, scholars have elaborated on the psychological origins of political misinformation, and this work has cumulated in a productive way. By contrast, although there is an extensive body of research on how to correct misinformation, this literature is less coherent in its recommendations. Finally, a nascent line of research asks whether people's reports of their factual beliefs are genuine or are instead a form of partisan cheerleading. Overall, scholarly research on political misinformation illustrates the many challenges inherent in representative democracy
Epistemology · Misinformation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Is the Covid-19 Fake News game good news? Testing whether creating and disseminating fake news about vaccines in a computer game reduces people's belief in anti-vaccine arguments
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Infoxicated” feelings? How affective polarization and misinformation reinforce each other in the US and France
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Astroturfing as a strategy for manipulating public opinion on Twitter during the pandemic in Spain
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The misinformation recognition and response model
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Crisis, country, and party lines
The Impact of Increased Learning Opportunities on Political Knowledge
Introduction
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy
How to study democratic backsliding
Coping with Cross‐Pressures
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation
Uninformed or Misinformed in the Digital News Environment? How Social Media News Use Affects Two Dimensions of Political Knowledge
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State of the world 2021
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Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior
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What Americans know about politics and why it matters
Misinformation and How to Correct It
Taming Intuition
The Rationalizing Voter
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Rational Public
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
The Ambivalent Partisan
Sources of the continued influence effect
Debunking
Fact-Checking Effectiveness as a Function of Format and Tone
Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation
Correcting misinformation about climate change
The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1
The Persuasiveness of Source Credibility
Does correcting myths about the flu vaccine work? An experimental evaluation of the effects of corrective information
The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines.
The Potential for Narrative Correctives to Combat Misinformation†
Misinformed About the Affordable Care Act? Leveraging Certainty to Assess the Prevalence of Misperceptions
Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media-Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory
Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions
Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories
The diffusion of misinformation on social media
The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation
Boomerang Effects in Science Communication
The Need for Affect
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government
The limitations of the backfire effect
You Cannot be Serious
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics
Rumors and factitious informational blends
Conspiracy Theories
Electoral Consequences of Political Rumors
Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision
Affect, cognition, and awareness
The hidden appeal and aversion to political conspiracies as revealed in the response dynamics of partisans
Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment
Telling the Truth about Believing the Lies? Evidence for the Limited Prevalence of Expressive Survey Responding
The Parties in Our Heads
Learning Together Slowly
Tides of Disagreement
Bias Will Find a Way
Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study of Public Opinion
Same Facts, Different Interpretations
The Muted Consequences of Correct Information about Immigration
Misinformation and the Currency of Democratic Citizenship
Misinformation or Expressive Responding
Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion Perception
Bankrupt Rhetoric
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation
The Affective Tipping Point
Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections
Beliefs Don't Always Persevere
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing
Belief Echoes
When Corrections Fail
The Elusive Backfire Effect
Motivated Responding in Studies of Factual Learning
Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability
The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion
Shaping Public Opinion
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Partisan Disagreement as a Challenge to Democratic Competence
Partisan Bias in Surveys
Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion
Measuring Political Knowledge
Rumors and Health Care Reform
Using Expert Sources to Correct Health Misinformation in Social Media
When Debunking Scientific Myths Fails (and When It Does Not)
Motivated skepticism
Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions
The need for cognition
The Partisan Brain
The case for motivated reasoning
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Boomerangs versus Javelins
Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Decomposing political knowledge
Political Ignorance and Collective Policy Preferences
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation
There Must Be a Reason
| Unique citing works | 112 |
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| Citations per year | 18,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 111 |