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Why Debunking Myths About Vaccines Hasn’t Convinced Dubious Parents

Harvard Business Review

So repeating wrong information, even to debunk it, backfires. But Nyhan and Reifler, in their research on misperceptions and corrections , discovered that when people who are mistaken undergo a self-affirmation exercise, it increases the odds that they’ll accept the corrected information.

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