Rethinking misinformation through plausibility estimation and confidence calibration
Abstract
Democracies are vulnerable to misinformation. Prevailing interventions emphasize truth detection, but offer no panacea. We argue that strengthening people’s ability to estimate the plausibility of information and calibrate their confidence under uncertainty offers a complementary route to addressing misinformation. Prevailing interventions against misinformation emphasize truth detection, but offer no panacea. Research into decision-making suggests that strengthening people’s ability to estimate the plausibility of information and to calibrate their confidence under uncertainty might offer a complementary route.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Deception detection and forensic psychology
Epistemology
Ethics
and Metaphysics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Communications Psychology
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 24–24
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026
- Language
- EN