Table 1.
Experiment 1 results (N = 360).
| Misinformation & bypassing M (SD) |
Misinformation & correction M (SD) |
Misinformation only (control) M (SD) |
F (2, 357) | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intention to support policy restrictions on the production of GM foods | 2.19a (1.29) | 2.26a (1.19) | 2.63b (1.32) | 4.29 | 0.014 |
| Attitude toward supporting policy restrictions on GM foods | 3.37a (1.82) | 3.63a (1.79) | 4.30b (2.08) | 7.67 | 0.001 |
| Belief in the misinformation about GM foods | 2.18a (1.13) | 1.61b (0.88) | 2.27a (1.18) | 13.31 | < 0.001 |
| Bypassing beliefs that GM foods alleviate global hunger | 3.39a (1.25) | 3.42a (1.17) | 3.22a (1.31) | 0.933 | 0.394 |
Different superscripts indicate statistically significant pairwise contrasts.