(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Truth Sandwiches: Psychological Inoculation [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-14 We have the equivalent of mental vaccines to prevent infection with harmful ideas. We teach some of them in the schools, and can do much more. We also have the usual antivaxxers claiming that these protections are destroying Democracy and whatever else will rile up their base. CRT and “wokeness” are their favorite Dog Whistles. x We usually say that Shakyamuni Buddha is enlightened, but his actual title is "Awakened". We Wokeists mean to help with the suffering of all sentient beings, which makes us chumps to the Wrong Wing, and also the greatest possible threat to their power and privilege. Get woker. https://t.co/7rp7QBDLMD pic.twitter.com/SSVxY2cxl6 — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) February 13, 2023 We mean to help the Wrong Wing with their suffering, too, as with all sentient beings, but that requires that they become sentient. Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing people about how they might be misinformed, but its scalability has been elusive both at a theoretical level and a practical level. We developed five short videos that inoculate people against manipulation techniques commonly used in misinformation: emotionally manipulative language, incoherence, false dichotomies, scapegoating, and ad hominem attacks. In seven preregistered studies, i.e., six randomized controlled studies (n = 6464) and an ecologically valid field study on YouTube (n = 22,632), we find that these videos improve manipulation technique recognition, boost confidence in spotting these techniques, increase people’s ability to discern trustworthy from untrustworthy content, and improve the quality of their sharing decisions. These effects are robust across the political spectrum and a wide variety of covariates. We show that psychological inoculation campaigns on social media are effective at improving misinformation resilience at scale. Wikipedia: Inoculation theory Of course, the Wrong-Wingers have long used psychological inoculation in reverse (what we might call psychological parisitism) to lock their children into their political, economic, and religious bubbles. Fortunately, that doesn’t work so well for them any more, now that you generally can’t raise children entirely in a bubble. Desegregation (racial, sexual, and otherwise), access to factual data in schools and on the Internet, and an evolving media ecology are our biggest allies, and the greatest targets of the other side. The battle lines have long been drawn in US history, and indeed in all of recorded history and beyond. Psychological Inoculation: New Techniques for Fighting Online Extremism Jun 24, 2021 — Psychological inoculation works by helping people build “mental antibodies” by briefly exposing them to a weakened persuasive message. On the other side, exposure to bogus religion and politics is intended to make children immune to the real things, and shut the Overton Window in public discourse. Royal Society Open Science: Psychological inoculation can reduce susceptibility to misinformation in large rational agent networks Inoculation theory works through a process known as ‘prebunking’ (i.e. refuting false information in advance), which helps people fortify their cognitive defences. Meta-analyses have shown that inoculation theory is one of the most robust frameworks for countering the persuasive efficacy of misinformation. Misinformation is recognized as an increasing threat to public, scientific and democratic health. Recent empirical work has focused on interventions aimed at inoculating people against misinformation, yielding success on the individual level. However, given the evolving, dynamic information context of online networks, important questions remain regarding how such inoculation interventions interact with network systems. Here we use an agent-based model of a social network populated with belief-updating users. We find that as beliefs disseminate, users form self-reinforcing echo chambers, leading to belief consolidation—irrespective of their veracity. Interrupting this process requires ‘front-loading’ of inoculation interventions by targeting critical thresholds of network users before consolidation occurs. We further demonstrate the value of harnessing tipping point dynamics for herd immunity effects, and note that inoculation processes do not necessarily lead to increased rates of ‘false-positive’ rejections of truthful communications. A crucial open question with significant theoretical and applied importance is to what extent ‘psychological herd immunity’ against misinformation is feasible. Inoculation Theory and Resisting Persuasion with Dr. Josh Compton (Podcast Episode) x YouTube Video Psychological inoculation against misinformation x YouTube Video Helping Children Develop Empathy and a Sense of Justice—Vivian Paley See her wonderful book You Can’t Say You Can’t Play, too. There is far more of this than I can squeeze into a post, of course. 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