Motivated Reasoning Processes

Disinformation, Party Identity and the Effectiveness of Fact-Checking in Taiwan: A Survey Experiment Design

The growing concern over misinformation stems from its potential to significantly disrupt democratic governance. This study examines the case of Taiwan and employs a survey experiment featuring realworld misinformation examples to evaluate the effectiveness of factchecking corrections in reducing public misperceptions. Grounded in the dual-process theory from social psychology and informed by existing international research, the study proposes and tests four theoretically driven hypotheses—all of which are supported by the empirical findings.

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