{"id":3244,"date":"2017-06-13T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psicopico.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2017-10-21T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:57:38","slug":"psicologos-inventan-una-vacuna-las-noticias-falsas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psicopico.com\/en\/psicologos-inventan-una-vacuna-las-noticias-falsas\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists invent a vaccine … against false news."},"content":{"rendered":"It sounds rare, but is true. Psychologists of the\u00a0Universities of Cambridge, Yale and George Mason<\/strong>\u00a0are trying to create a cerebral vaccine that you inmunice of the false news. We live in the society of the information and \u00a0believe us big quantity of news of\u00a0doubtful veracity that circulate by media and social networks viraliz\u00e1ndose\u00a0like cual virus of the flu. This virus already has his vaccine, or no.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent examples of this type of false news is the one who\u00a0Javier C\u00e1rdenas<\/strong>\u00a0starred at the beginning of this month. The popular presenter of radius and television solt\u00f3 without more a false news, a hoax, that\u00a0related the autism with the vaccines<\/a>. Which is totally false but that surely a lot of people have believed\u00a0 given the\u00a0effect charm and \u00a0of authority<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that supposes\u00a0 that a presenter has to transmit. We take for granted that the news is real when coming from of this source, without more.<\/p>\n

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Psychological vaccine against the false news.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The study in question, published at the beginning of this year 2017, designated\u00a0Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(in Spanish, Inoculating to the public against the desinformaci\u00f3n on the climatic change)\u00a0uses a similar technician to the conventional vaccines for inmunizar in front of the false news.<\/p>\n

In summary, these scientists what did was\u00a0to stimulate the psychological immune system<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in front of this type of information of scarce reliability. They mixed small dose of\u00a0news\u00a0fake<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(false) between documented and truthful news.\u00a0The results were not too hopeful, but until 13% of the people that\u00a0 “vacunaron”\u00a0of specific form changed his opinions on the news in favour of the scientific rigour.<\/p>\n

What does this “vaccine” is to create some resistance to the desinformaci\u00f3n, so that the next time that see a doubtful news, will be more susceptible to her. That is to say, the vaccine accustoms us to look for some degree of veracity and rigour in the news and not to remain us with the simple headline.<\/p>\n

In the scientific study, presented to the 2.000 participants in the investigation two affirmations on the climatic change, a real and another false. The true news answered to that 97% of the scientists agreed in that the climatic change was caused by the man. The false said the contrary and was\u00a0backed (hypothetically) by the signature of tens of thousands of American scientists (fake<\/em>). In fact, only 1% of the signatories were expert people and the rest of the communiqu\u00e9 was “signed” by the same Spice Girl and until the big Charles Darwin (Ay, Darwin if you raised the head and saw in what has converted\u00a0 the human evolution!).<\/p>\n

The “psychological” vaccines that these psychologists presented them to the participants were of two types:<\/p>\n