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.
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).
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, robustness not checked.
Computational: "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 Computational: 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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