Emotional refutations result in misinformation correction. There are no significant differences between positive vs. negative emotional refutations, and there are no significant differences between emotional refutations vs. non-emotional refutations.

Emotional Refutations: Misinformation Correction

Negative emotional refutations are read faster than positive emotional refutations. Therefore, it may be easier to integrate information from negative emotional refutations.

Emotional Refutations: Reading Times

- Misinformation correction
- Reading times

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Negative emotional refutations include negative emotions, such as anger and disgust.

Negative Emotional Refutations

Positive emotional refutations are characterized by positive emotions, such as happiness and hopefulness.

Positive Emotional Refutations

Trevors, G., & Kendeou, P. (2020). The effects of positive and negative emotional text content on knowledge revision. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(9), 1326-1339. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820913816

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