Fort Kara S, Shulman Hillary C
School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Front Psychol. 2024 Sep 16;15:1417910. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1417910. eCollection 2024.
This experiment ( = 1,019) examined how a state of processing fluency, induced through either an easy or difficult task (reading a simple vs. complex message or recalling few vs. many examples) impacted participants' ability to subsequently detect misinformation. The results revealed that, as intended, easier tasks led to higher reports of processing fluency. In turn, increased processing fluency was positively associated with internal efficacy. Finally, internal efficacy was positively related to misinformation detection using a signal detection task. This work suggests that feelings of ease while processing information can promote confidence and a more discerning style of information processing. Given the proliferation of misinformation online, an understanding of how metacognitions - like processing fluency - can disrupt the tacit acceptance of information carries important democratic and normative implications.
本实验（n = 1,019）研究了通过简单或困难任务（阅读简单与复杂信息或回忆少量与大量示例）诱导产生的加工流畅状态如何影响参与者随后检测错误信息的能力。结果显示，正如预期的那样，较简单的任务会带来更高的加工流畅度报告。相应地，加工流畅度的提高与内在效能呈正相关。最后，内在效能与使用信号检测任务进行错误信息检测呈正相关。这项研究表明，信息加工过程中的轻松感能够增强信心，并促进更具辨别力的信息加工方式。鉴于网络上错误信息的大量传播，了解诸如加工流畅度等元认知如何能够打破对信息的默认接受具有重要的民主和规范意义。
