This open materials contains the full experiment for a project looking to investigate the interplay between attention and willingness to believe information. This builds on previous studies (Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Zhang, Y., Lu, J. G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention. Psychological science, 31(7), 770-780.) which indicate that an attentional deficit may be critical in altering ones willingness to believe news. To this end the experiment contained here asks participants to rate news headlines as to how true they believe them to be. Half of the sample completed the ratings while a audio distractor played in the background of the task.
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A information and consent form are displayed to both conditions after which a randomizer node directed participants either to the distractor present or distractor absent condition. the distractor present condition had an additional audio check and 2 follow up questions regarding the audio that was played. A script segment taken from the gorilla repository was used to play sound in the background of the task, see script component of the audio version of the task. The task display screens in each version of the experiment make use of a 1500 ms time out and a likert scale rating.
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Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Zhang, Y., Lu, J. G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention. Psychological science, 31(7), 770-780.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797620939054?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=bcast&utm_campaign=reatsearch
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