And in the end—this pseudo-medical treatment that takes the form of logical analysis is intended to result in more robust, more resilient knowledge structures—of a critical rebuttal of that which is not true, of that which threatens a healthy belief system.
Josh Compton
Inoculation theory offers a way to think about the requisite conditions to reject a claim under the Spinozan belief model—motivation and resources. Threat (a perception of belief vulnerability raised by an inoculation treatment message, implicitly through the presence of counterattitudinal content and/or explicitly through the presence of a forewarning) triggers the motivation, and refutational preemption (the raising and refuting of counterattitudinal challenges to an existing position that are usually present in an inoculation message) provides the resources. In this talk, I’ll consider whether inoculation messaging might offer a useful strategy to confer resistance to influence in the contexts of politics, health, commerce, education, and others.
Inoculation and/as doubt: Resources and motivation to resist. Belief Default Symposium. Hamline University: St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. April, 20 2018.
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