2025-03-11 オックスフォード大学
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- https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03-11-new-research-reveals-psychological-booster-shots-can-strengthen-resistance
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57205-x
記憶をターゲットにした心理的ブースターショットが、誤った情報に対する長期的な抵抗力を高める Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation
Rakoen Maertens,Jon Roozenbeek,Jon S. Simons,Stephan Lewandowsky,Vanessa Maturo,Beth Goldberg,Rachel Xu & Sander van der Linden
Nature Communications Published:11 March 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57205-x
Abstract
An increasing number of real-world interventions aim to preemptively protect or inoculate people against misinformation. Inoculation research has demonstrated positive effects on misinformation resilience when measured immediately after treatment via messages, games, or videos. However, very little is currently known about their long-term effectiveness and the mechanisms by which such treatment effects decay over time. We start by proposing three possible models on the mechanisms driving resistance to misinformation. We then report five pre-registered longitudinal experiments (Ntotal = 11,759) that investigate the effectiveness of psychological inoculation interventions over time as well as their underlying mechanisms. We find that text-based and video-based inoculation interventions can remain effective for one month—whereas game-based interventions appear to decay more rapidly—and that memory-enhancing booster interventions can enhance the diminishing effects of counter-misinformation interventions. Finally, we propose an integrated memory-motivation model, concluding that misinformation researchers would benefit from integrating knowledge from the cognitive science of memory to design better psychological interventions that can counter misinformation durably over time and at-scale.
