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Tay, Li and Lewandowsky, Stephan and Hurlstone, Mark and Kurz, Tim and Ecker, Ullrich (2024) Thinking Clearly About Misinformation. Communications Psychology, 2: 4. ISSN 2731-9121 There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy, and research should differentiate between dimensions of misinformation in these evaluations.

There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy, and research should differentiate between dimensions of misinformation in these evaluations. The authors declare no competing interests. Fig. 1.

Directed acyclic graphs illustrating causal… Fig. 1. Directed acyclic graphs illustrating causal networks of misinformation effects. Fig. 2.

Potential misinformation effects across types,… Li Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark Hurlstone, Tim Kurz, Ullrich Ecker Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review T1 - Thinking clearly about misinformation

There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy, and research should differentiate between dimensions of misinformation in these evaluations. There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This appears a false dichotomy, and research should differentiate between dimensions of misinformation in these evaluations.

Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024).

Thinking clearly about misinformation. Communications Psychology, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5 Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work. Communications Psychology volume 2, Article number: 4 (2024) Cite this article There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation.

Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy, and research should differentiate between dimensions of misinformation in these evaluations. In Western societies, misinformation concern is at an all-time high. Recently, however, debate has ensued regarding the level of concern that is warranted. Some researchers note the potential for misinformation to incur significant costs on individuals and societies, and call for interventions to reduce misinformation susceptibility and impacts1,2. Others warn against alarmist narratives, arguing that misinformation exerts only limited influence over beliefs and behaviours.

This view proposes that problematic behaviours, such as vaccine hesitancy, are caused by systemic socio-economic and psycho-social issues, and thus calls for interventions to target those societal issues rather than misinformation creation and consumption,... Similarly, assuming low prevalence of misinformation, researchers have argued that interventions should focus on increasing trust in factual information4. A principled way to resolve these contradicting analyses is needed, to better inform policies and minimize the risk of enshrining a problematic status quo or investing resources to address a perhaps negligible problem. We argue that misinformation has had clear impacts; that depending on individual and contextual factors, it can be both a symptom and a cause; and that its multidimensionality (e.g. topic, type, and depth of dissemination) ought to be more fully considered when making such evaluations. Societal issues can shape individuals’ beliefs and produce problematic behaviours.

Behaviours such as vaccine hesitancy and climate-change denial have been facilitated by factors such as populism, inequality, disenfranchisement, political polarization, and the concentration of media ownership5. These factors are amplified by low institutional trust, which is a wicked problem because even if many institutions are generally trustworthy, some politicians, scientists, media outlets, and corporations have engaged in unethical behaviours that...

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