Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention

Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang, Jackson G. Lu, David G. Rand

Psychological Science, 2020. DOI 10.1177/0956797620939054

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 2 replications and 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 2 mixed, 1 with no outcome recorded.

How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020), Roozenbeek et al. (2021). Outcome recorded: mixed. 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). 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). 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 View paper

Pennycook covid E32j - Talbert - Reproduction (with author data & code), Miske et al. (2020). No outcome recorded. View paper