TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - How accurate are accuracy-nudge interventions? A preregistered direct replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Roozenbeek, Jon
A1  - Freeman, Alexandra L. J.
A1  - van der Linden, Sander
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - As part of the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program, the present study consisted of a two-stage replication test of a central finding by Pennycook et al. (2020), namely that asking people to think about the accuracy of a single headline improves "truth discernment" of intentions to share news headlines about COVID-19. 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 that were perceived as less accurate. We discuss potential explanations for these findings and an unreported change in the hypothesis (but not the analysis plan) from the preregistration in the original study.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976211024535
ID  - ref1
ER  -