Assessing inoculation's effectiveness in motivating resistance to conspiracy propaganda in Finnish and United States samples.

Introduction: This study tested the motivational power of inoculation to foster resistance to conspiracy propaganda ( Movement), comparing inoculation effects across United States and Finnish study participants.

Method: We used a 2 inoculation (treatment vs. control)  ×  2 national culture (American vs.

Inoculating Against Anti-Vaccination Conspiracies.

This study examined the efficacy of inoculation treatments in preventing anti-vaccination propaganda. Study predictions were tested in an independent-group experiment ( = 165), wherein participants were randomly assigned to a fact-based inoculation or a logic-based inoculation or a control message, with an excerpt from an anti-vaccination conspiracy film, , used as a counterattitudinal attack message. The results indicated that both inoculation treatments (fact-based and logic-based) were effective at instilling resistance to counter-persuasion, as compared to the control condition, and both types of inoculation messages were equal in their potential to facilitate resistance.