van der Linden Sander, Roozenbeek Jon, Compton Josh
Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 23;11:566790. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566790. eCollection 2020.
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social media. In this article, we explore the coronavirus "infodemic" and how behavioral scientists may seek to address this problem. We detail the scope of the problem and discuss the negative influence that COVID-19 misinformation can have on the widespread adoption of health protective behaviors in the population. In response, we explore how insights from the behavioral sciences can be leveraged to manage an effective societal response to curb the spread of misinformation about the virus. In particular, we discuss the theory of psychological inoculation (or ) as an efficient vehicle for conferring large-scale psychological resistance against fake news.
严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）的爆发伴随着大量关于该病毒的误导性和虚假信息，尤其是在社交媒体上。在本文中，我们探讨了冠状病毒“信息疫情”以及行为科学家可能如何设法解决这一问题。我们详细阐述了问题的范围，并讨论了COVID-19错误信息可能对公众广泛采取健康保护行为产生的负面影响。作为回应，我们探讨了如何利用行为科学的见解来管理有效的社会应对措施，以遏制有关该病毒的错误信息的传播。特别是，我们讨论了心理接种理论作为一种有效手段，用于赋予大规模的心理抵抗力以抵御假新闻。
