Intervention

Helping children with autism gain a better grasp of vocabulary is an important way to improve their language skills. Information that incorporates emotional prosodies provide richer semantics and context and may be more conducive to vocabulary acquisition in children with autism. This study aimed to explore the facilitating effect of positive emotional prosody on vocabulary acquisition with children with autism. A total of 12 children with autism received interventions with neutral and positive emotional prosodies. The results revealed that vocabulary learned in positive emotional prosodies was more effective than neutral prosodies. The differences in the learning effects of emotional prosodies on part of speech were not significant. However, in children with higher autism severity, neutral prosodies led to diminished expressive vocabulary performance. This study improved vocabulary comprehension and language skills of children with autism through emotional prosody intervention and tentatively revealed the role of lexicality in this.

Fake news impacts individuals’ behavior and decision-making while also disrupting political processes, perceptions of medical advice, and societal trends. Improving individuals’ ability to accurately assess fake news can reduce its harmful effects. However, previous research on media literacy interventions designed for improving fake news credibility assessments has yielded inconsistent results. We systematically collected 33 independent studies and performed a meta-analysis to examine the effects of media literacy interventions on assessing fake news credibility (n = 36,256). The results showed that media literacy interventions significantly improved fake news credibility assessments (Hedges’ g = 0.53, 95% confidence interval [0.29–0.78], p < 0.001). Gaming interventions were the most effective intervention form. Conversely, the intervention channel, outcome measurement, and subject characteristics (age, gender, and country development level) did not influence the intervention effects."

Children with autism exhibit more pronounced symptoms of both problem behaviors and motor coordination difficulties. Yoga, recognized as an effective intervention modality, can be valuable after assessing its efficacy in addressing problem behaviors and motor coordination challenges, ultimately contributing to symptom alleviation in autism. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) was used to divide 17 children with autism into an intervention group (n = 9) and a control group (n = 8). The intervention group participated in an 8-week yoga intervention training (three sessions/week, 45–50 min/session), and the control group did not participate in yoga training but only in daily program activities. Pre-test, mid-test, post-test, and after delayed test, teachers assessed the effect of yoga intervention on problem behaviors of children with autism through the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC) and the effect of yoga intervention on motor coordination through the Movement Assessment Battery for Children—Second Edition (MABC2). Results show that the yoga intervention is effective in reducing problem behaviors and improving motor coordination in children with autism. Yoga intervention significantly reduces irritability and social withdrawal in children with autism. Yoga intervention had the most significant improvement in ball skills and static and dynamic balance.

This study demonstrates that psychological inoculation is an effective approach against misinformation. It effectively strengthens individuals’ discernment abilities, enabling them to distinguish between genuine and false information. Furthermore, when applied to health misinformation, psychological inoculation shows promise in diminishing the credibility assessment and sharing the intention of health-related falsehoods, contributing to safeguarding public health. These findings have profound implications for public health and digital well-being. Psychological inoculation can be easily scaled to a broader population at a lower cost, institutions can apply it to mitigate potential misinformation crises [7]. Incorporating psychological inoculation strategies into public health initiatives and educational programs can empower individuals to make well-informed decisions in an era characterized by information proliferation. Cultivating a discerning and well-informed public is crucial to buildi

Misinformation has become a severe social problem, and helping the public deal with it is a significant focus of psychologists’ research. One effective approach has been to use psychological inoculation to combat misinformation. Still, the comparative effectiveness of different forms of inoculation and their impact on the perception of accurate information needs further investigation. In this study conducted in China, we compared the effects of game-based and graphic-based forms of inoculation and analyzed their impact on the perception of accurate information and misinformation. We found that both forms of inoculation effectively reduced perceived credibility and sharing intention of misinformation, and the effects remained stable for two weeks. The game-based inoculation was more effective in reducing perceived credibility of misinformation than graphic-based inoculation. Neither form of inoculation impacted the perceived credibility and sharing intention of accurate information. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of inoculation in combating misinformation and suggest that more active inoculation measures should be developed and applied."

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