Prosocial motives to identify misinformation
If political profiteering successfully capitalizes on these family-related values, why could not a psychological intervention encourage the recognition of misinformation does the same? Research shows that prosocial motivation -compared to egoistic- can drive people to work harder, smarter, safer, and more collaboratively (e.g.These prosocial values went hand in hand with the digital competence-based position of the young adults in their families. We designed this intervention for young adults whose everyday practices involve a lot of online activities. Therefore, we supposed that they see themselves as more competent and feel more comfortable in the online world than their parents or grandparents. This social relation could put these young adults into an empowered position from which they can give authentic advice, especially after reading the six testimonials. These testimonials were not supposed to trigger reactance as they were labeled as mere opinions about the presented strategies. The six quotes also served as core content and a channeling towards the indirect self-persuasive, saying-is-believing exercise in which the participants could write a letter about the misinformation identification strategies.