Processing inaccurate information: theoretical and applied perspectives from cognitive science and the educational sciences

Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire -- from other people, from books, or from the media -- is wrong. Studies show that people rely on such misinformation, sometimes even when they are aware that the information is inaccurate or invalid. And yet investigations of learning and knowledge acquisition largely ignore encounters with this sort of problematic material. This volume fills the gap, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the processing of misinformation and its consequences. The contributors, from cognitive science and education science, provide analyses that represent a variety of methodologies, theoretical orientations, and fields of expertise. The chapters describe the behavioral consequences of relying on misinformation and outline possible remediations; discuss the cognitive activities that underlie encounters with inaccuracies, investigating why reliance occurs so readily; present theoretical and philosophical considerations of the nature of inaccuracies; and offer formal, empirically driven frameworks that detail when and how inaccuracies will lead to comprehension difficulties.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Accurate and Inaccurate Knowledge Acquisition / Jason L. G. Braasch -- I.Detecting and Dealing with Inaccuracies -- 2.Correcting Misinformation -- A Challenge for Education and Cognitive Science / Stephan Lewandowsky -- 3.The Continued Influence Effect: The Persistence of Misinformation in Memory and Reasoning Following Correction / Colleen M. Seifert -- 4.Failures to Detect Textual Problems during Reading / Douglas J. Hacker -- 5.Research on Semantic Illusions Tells Us That There Are Multiple Sources of Misinformation / Brenda Hannon -- 6.Sensitivity to Inaccurate Argumentation in Health News Articles: Potential Contributions of Readers' Topic and Epistemic Beliefs / Helge I. Strømsø -- 7.Conversational Agents Can Help Humans Identify Flaws in the Science Reported in Digital Media / Xiangen Hu -- II.Mechanisms of Inaccurate Knowledge Acquisition -- 8.Knowledge Neglect: Failures to Notice Contradictions with Stored Knowledge / Sharda Umanath

Note continued: 9.Mechanisms of Problematic Knowledge Acquisition / Jessica J. Andrews -- 10.Discounting Information: When False Information Is Preserved and When It Is Not / Ruth Mayo -- 11.The Ambivalent E…