- The results of experiment 1 and 3 showing no decay in the inoculation effect over time suggest that boosting of inoculation interventions can provide long-term stability for inoculation interventions and overall provide a long-term solution to defending against misinformation.
- How can future media literacy training help people recognize real news as well as fake news?


Key Takeaways of the Longitudinal Experiments on Long-Term Effectiveness of Inoculation Against Misinformation

For the follow-ups after 1 week, 5 weeks, and 13 weeks the results showed that the inoculation effect still remained significant.

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Experiment 1 replicated the original Bad News Intervention study. It had participants take a pretest rating the reliability of presented news items (some fake, some real). The experimental group then played the bad news game and then took the same rating test while the control group instead played Tetris prior to the post test. Participants were then called back for follow-up testing rating the same news headlines at 1 week, 5 weeks, and 13 weeks.

Design of Experiment 1 Testing Longitudinal Effects of Inoculation Interventions

Maertens, R., Roozenbeek, J., Basol, M., &amp; van der Linden, S. (2021). Long-term effectiveness of inoculation Against misinformation: Three Longitudinal experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000315 

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