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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Inoculation Theory"”.
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Essays on resistance against persuasion: Building, strengthening, and spreading attitudinal resistance through inoculation theory.
… viral in first place. Though the efficacy of inoculation theory, often regarded as the “grandfather theory of persuasion”, has been demonstrated across varying contexts, little research exists on its efficacy against online misinformation. The aim of this doctoral research was to examine how …
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Gender Stereotypes and Interventions Targeting Gender Stereotypes
… 4). Specifically, I designed and evaluated theory-driven psychological interventions based on optimised debunking and inoculation theory (Chapter 2, 3, and 4). Additionally, I examined the psychological mechanisms involved in improving gender-STEM stereotype discernment (Chapter 3 and …
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The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions
… Building on this, the chapter presents inoculation theory as a potential solution to the misinformation problem while highlighting its limited testing in social environments. Chapter 2 presents two online experiments on source effects, demonstrating that news consumers are more …
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Helping Mothers Defend their Decision to Breastfeed
… intervention was a board game based on McGuire's inoculation theory of resistance to influence. Controlling for intention to breastfed, intervention and comparison groups were examined for differences in maternal self-efficacy to resist persuasion to give formula and breastfeeding rates for …
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The Long-Term Effectiveness of Inoculation Against Misinformation: An Integrated Theory of Memory, Threat, and Motivation
For over 60 years, inoculation theory has been a key framework to understand resistance to persuasion, yet many critical questions have remained unanswered. This dissertation aims to provide a theoretical and empirical understanding of how resistance to persuasion effects decay over time. In the …