## Colophon title:: Leveraging Religiosity Against COVID19 Misinformation Experimental Evidence from India type:: [[literature-note]] tags:: [[%tie]] [[%m50]] [[&paper]] [[india]] [[mwi]] [[religion]] url:: https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/Assets/paper-covid.pdf file:: https://www.dropbox.com/s/81ymunjfm1gj80v/Leveraging%20Religiosity%20Against%20COVID-19%20Misinformation-%20Experimental%20Evidence%20from%20India.pdf?dl=0 status:: [[bean]] ## Notes #### Main Conclusions #### Assertions > We posit that motivated reasoning may affect individuals through two distinct mechanisms: cognitive dissonance with new information or social pressure to conform to group norms. *Implications* 1. If scientific information/corrections are 'incongruent' with long held beliefs, it can cause cognitive dissonance and to eliminate this 'highly religious individuals' will adopt the misinformation. 2. Belief in information 'incongruent with group beliefs' can lead to 'fear of alienation from the in-group'. Authors referred to this 'identity protective cognition' which is a form motivated reasoning results in increased pressure to hold/form 'group-congruent beliefs' 3. Corrections that reduce dissonance and pressure to conform may reduce 'prevalence of these beliefs'. > Building on this rationale, we hypothesize that corrections relieving the dissonance between priors and true information will be effective in reducing rates of belief in misinformation. We further see this as especially likely among highly religious respondents, who would be more likely to pay attention to a religious frame or more likely to be affected by it **(H2**). > we additionally **argue that relieving the pressure to conform to in-group norms (by changing the perception of a group norm to one that primes accuracy) constitutes an effective strategy among individuals whose beliefs are most likely to be driven by shared group identity**. > - Specifically, we hypothesize that changing perceptions of in-group norms should be effective among highly religious in- dividuals when the ingroup is defined in religious terms **(H3)** and effective among strong supporters of the BJP when the ingroup is defined in partisan terms **(H4)**. #### Quotes with context