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Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People's Willingness to Investigate Political
Jonah Koetke1, Karina Schumann1, Tenelle Porter2
1University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract:
The spread of online political misinformation has ramifications for political polarization, trust in political systems, and the functioning of democracy. In this article, we advance findings on investigative behaviors-actions aimed at determining the veracity of information encountered online-in response to political misinformation. Across three preregistered studies (N = 889), we find that investigative behaviors increase accuracy discernment of political misinformation (Study 1), that intellectual humility reliably predicts investigative behaviors in this context (Study 2), and test a novel fallibility salience manipulation to increase intellectual humility (Study 3). We discuss the implications of these findings for reducing the impacts of political misinformation.
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