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EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST
卷 28, 期 3, 页码 139-150出版社
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000491
关键词
misinformation; fake news; ethics; debriefing; open science
Misinformation can have harmful effects on cognition, leading to the formation of false beliefs and distorting memory. Researchers investigating the impacts of real-world misinformation face ethical issues regarding the consequences of exposing participants to false claims. A review of ethical practices in misinformation research found that few researchers reported details of informed consent and debriefing, and almost none assessed the effectiveness of their debriefing procedure. Based on these findings, guidelines for best practices are proposed to balance the risks and rewards in this field.
Misinformation can have noxious impacts on cognition, fostering the formation of false beliefs, retroactively distorting memory for events, and influencing reasoning and decision-making even after it has been credibly corrected. Researchers investigating the impacts of real-world misinformation are therefore faced with an ethical issue: they must consider the immediate and long-term consequences of exposing participants to false claims. In this paper, we first present an overview of the ethical risks associated with real-world misinformation. We then report results from a scoping review of ethical practices in misinformation research. We investigated (1) the extent to which researchers report the details of their ethical practices, including issues of informed consent and debriefing, and (2) the specific steps that researchers report taking to protect participants from the consequences of misinformation exposure. We found that fewer than 30% of misinformation papers report any debriefing, and almost no authors assessed the effectiveness of their debriefing procedure. Building on the findings from this review, we evaluate the balance of risk versus reward currently operating in this field and propose a set of guidelines for best practices. Our ultimate goat is to allow researchers the freedom to investigate questions of considerable scientific and societal impact white meeting their ethical obligations to participants.
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