Writing the "Common Misconceptions" Part of a Teaching Article: Who It Helps, Whether It Plants the Error, and Where to Put the Correction
In one refutation-text meta-analysis, effects showed no measured difference whether or not studies first screened out readers who already answered correctly. A misinformation review lists 11 studies of the familiarity backfire effect; 3 reported that repeating a myth made people believe it more, all three on vaccines and all with single-item measures. No study has directly tested what happens when the reader never heard the misconception before. What you can act on now: keep the false claim and the correct claim together, give the correct claim with a reason, and do not let the false claim stand alone as a heading.