Effective mitigation of the belief perseverance bias after the retraction of misinformation: Awareness training and counter-speech

Jana Siebert; Johannes Ulrich Siebert

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282202

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Effective mitigation of the belief perseverance bias after the retraction of misinformation: Awareness training and counter-speech

Jana Siebert,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-8135

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Johannes Ulrich Siebert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: johannes.siebert@mci.edu

Affiliation Department of Business and Management, Management Center Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-308X

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Effective mitigation of the belief perseverance bias after the retraction of misinformation: Awareness training and counter-speech

Jana Siebert,
Johannes Ulrich Siebert

Published: March 8, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282202

About the Authors

Jana Siebert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-8135

Johannes Ulrich Siebert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: johannes.siebert@mci.edu

Affiliation Department of Business and Management, Management Center Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-308X

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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