. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2017 Sep 12;28(11):1531–1546. doi: 10.1177/0956797617714579

Table 4.

Results of Correlational and Multiple Regression Analyses Predicting N

	Misinformation	Debunking	Misinformation -Persistence
Simple Correlations
df	14	-	40
Publication Status	.91^***	-	.63^***
Online vs. Lab Data Collection	.91^***	-	.63^***
Publication Year	.23	-	.36^*
Explanations in line with the Misinformation	−.21	-	−.50^***
Counterarguments to the Misinformation	-	-	−.52^***
Unstandardized Multiple Regression Coefficients
df	14	-	36
Publication Status	169.78^***^a	-	462.22^*^b 118.48^^a
Online vs. Lab Data Collection	n.a.	-	n.a.
Publication Year	−0.82	-	2.15
Explanations in line with the Misinformation	10.62	-	−2.63
Counterarguments to the Misinformation	-	-	5.49

Note. df = degree of freedom;

= coefficients of dissertations compared to journal articles;

= coefficient of working papers compared to journal articles. Results are about the same if explanations in line with the misinformation and counter-argument generation are excluded. (see Footnote 1)

< .05,

^**

< .01,

^***

<.001.