Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 2 replications and 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 2 mixed, 1 failed. The earliest on record is from 2021.
Replications
- How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020), Roozenbeek et al. (2021). Psychological Science. Outcome recorded: mixed.
The first stage of the replication test ( n = 701) was unsuccessful ( p = .67). After collecting a second round of data (additional n = 882, pooled N = 1,583), we found a small but significant interaction between treatment condition and truth discernment (uncorrected p = .017; treatment: d = 0.14, control: d = 0.10). As in the target study, perceived headline accuracy correlated with treatment impact, so that treatment-group participants were less willing to share headlines…
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper - Fighting the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Kyrgyzstan, India, and the United States: How replicable are accuracy nudge interventions?, Gavin et al. (2022). Technology, Mind, and Behavior. Outcome recorded: mixed.
The accuracy nudge's effect did not replicate in the Kyrgyzstan sample (n = 1,049). Results were mixed in India (n = 703) and the United States (n = 829); the nudge decreased willingness to share some misinformation
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper
Reproductions
- Pennycook covid E32j - Talbert - Reproduction (with author data & code), Miske et al. (2020). OSF. Outcome recorded: computational issues, not checked.
"The reproduction attempt failed while the code for study 2 was successfully run there was nothing in the output that matched the focal test."
Outcome read from Reproduction result. View paper
Cite this record
Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Zhang, Y., Lu, J. G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention. Psychological Science, 31(7), 770–780. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620939054
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