The Psychological Drivers of Misinformation Belief and its Resistance to Correction (January 2022).
The findings of this paper are of increasing importance given some of the United States government’s weaponization of information – creating disinformation campaigns – to obstruct justice and coverup illegal covert activities.
The designers of influence operations and intelligence operations rely on the resistance to correction which is a reason sowing confusion by intelligence agencies is undertaken and so effective.
