The Continued Influence Effect describes corrected misinformation continuing to affect later reasoning. Retraction may leave an explanatory gap or compete with the original claim in memory. Corrections can help; they should provide supported explanations where available and disclose uncertainty where the cause remains unknown.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Effects, Biases & Phenomena
Identifies a bounded pattern in judgment, behavior or communication and the conditions under which it appears. Naming the pattern makes a recurring difficulty recognizable; it does not make the pattern inevitable or supply a complete explanation.