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

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- Misinformation correction
- Reading times

Characteristics of 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

The effects of positive and negative emotional text content on knowledge revision

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.

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