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Gordon Pennycook on how to improve a ‘prebunking’ technique

Gordon Pennycook on how to improve a ‘prebunking’ technique

Update: 2024-11-04
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As social media platforms deployed psychological “inoculation” on a large scale, hoping to help people spot techniques common to misinformation, Gordon Pennycook, associate professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology and College of Arts and Sciences, had doubts about its effectiveness. He discusses new research identifying a way to strengthen inoculations, and why he began studying misinformation.
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Gordon Pennycook on how to improve a ‘prebunking’ technique

Gordon Pennycook on how to improve a ‘prebunking’ technique

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