Processing Inaccurate Information

<b>Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying understanding and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.</b> <p/>Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire--from other people from books or from the media--is wrong. Studies show that people rely on such misinformation sometimes even when they are aware that the information is inaccurate or invalid. And yet investigations of learning and knowledge acquisition largely ignore encounters with this sort of problematic material. This volume fills the gap offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the processing of misinformation and its consequences. <p/>The contributors from cognitive science and education science provide analyses that represent a variety of methodologies theoretical orientations and fields of expertise. The chapters describe the behavioral consequences of relying on misinformation and outline possible remediations; discuss the cognitive activities that underlie encounters with inaccuracies investigating why reliance occurs so readily; present theoretical and philosophical considerations of the nature of inaccuracies; and offer formal empirically driven frameworks that detail when and how inaccuracies will lead to comprehension difficulties. <p/><b>Contributors</b> <br>Peter Afflerbach Patricia A. Alexander Jessica J. Andrews Peter Baggetta Jason L. G. Braasch Ivar Bråten M. Anne Britt Rainer Bromme Luke A. Buckland Clark A. Chinn Byeong-Young Cho Sidney K. D'Mello Andrea A. diSessa Ullrich K. H. Ecker Arthur C. Graesser Douglas J. Hacker Brenda Hannon Xiangen Hu Maj-Britt Isberner Koto Ishiwa Matthew E. Jacovina Panayiota Kendeou Jong-Yun Kim Stephan Lewandowsky Elizabeth J. Marsh Ruth Mayo Keith K. Millis Edward J. O'Brien Herre van Oostendorp José Otero David N. Rapp Tobias Richter Ronald W. Rinehart Yaacov Schul Colleen M. Seifert Marc Stadtler Brent Steffens Helge I. Strømsø Briony Swire Sharda Umanath