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“traditional inoculation research has focused on building resilience against specific persuasive attacks (15).”
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“Psychological inoculation treatments contain two core components (15): (i) a forewarning that induces a perceived threat of an impending attack on one’s attitudes and (ii) exposure to a weakened (micro)dose of misinformation that contains a preemptive refutation (or prebunk) of the anticipated misleading arguments or persuasion techniques.”
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- Authors
- Compton, J.
- Corresponding author
- Compton, Josh
- ORCID
- Compton, Josh
- Venue
- The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 220-236
- OpenAlex
- W4240760016
- Cited by
- 158
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.38
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sage eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- Keywords
- inoculation theory, resistance to persuasion, counterargument, attitude change
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