7 Of course, these factors may be correlated with political sophistication and ideology and may
therefore be at the root of some of the empirical regularities cited in the “Political Factors”
section.

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effectiveness of corrections. For instance, individuals with a high need for
closure may be especially vulnerable to the continued inﬂuence effect; if these
individuals are less acceptant of gaps in their mental models of an event, they
may be more likely to retain misinformation in the absence of plausible
alternative explanations. Moving forward, future research should continue to
probe the extent to which a high need for closure predisposes certain individuals
to disregard corrections.
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