Mindfulness over Matter: Boosting Thoughtful Information Consumption in an Era of Misinformation

• In Event: Correcting Misperception

Brief Overview

A mindfulness exercise improves fact-checking online. With both mindfulness treatment and fact-checking links, participants spent 4.5 minutes longer with information, more than four times the benefit of providing fact-checking links alone.

Authors

• Melissa N. Baker, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Elaine Denny, University of California-Merced