错误信息持续影响的跨阶段累积机制
The Cross-Stage Accumulation Mechanism of the Continued Influence of Misinformation
摘要: 错误信息持续影响效应是指错误信息被更正后仍持续影响后续判断的现象。围绕其究竟主要源于前期表征整合还是后期提取竞争，本文在回顾经典研究与近年行为、神经证据的基础上，系统梳理相关争议。综合现有文献，本文提出跨阶段累积解释：错误信息先在初始理解中进入事件解释框架，后在判断阶段凭熟悉性、来源权重和任务情境获得提取优势。该视角有助于解释更正时机、来源可信度及干预效果的差异，并提示干预作用具有明显的阶段差异与边界条件。
Abstract: The continued influence effect of misinformation refers to the phenomenon that misinformation continues to affect people’s reasoning and judgment even after it has been corrected. A key issue is whether this persistence mainly results from early representational integration or from later retrieval competition. Based on classic studies and recent behavioral and neuroscientific evidence, this review argues that the continued influence of misinformation is better understood as a cross-stage accumulation process rather than a single-stage failure. Specifically, misinformation may first gain an advantage by entering the initial interpretation of an event, and later maintain its influence because it is more likely to be reactivated during judgment. This perspective helps explain differences in correction timing, source credibility, and intervention outcomes, and suggests that corrective effects show clear stage-related differences and boundary conditions.
文章引用：占宇欣 (2026). 错误信息持续影响的跨阶段累积机制. 心理学进展, 16(5), 283-292. https://doi.org/10.12677/ap.2026.165263

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