Narrative elaboration makes misinformation and corrective information regarding COVID-19 more believable

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Table 3 Partial correlations controlling for age for all variables; correlation of age with all variables

	Misinfo Elab	Misinfo-only Share	Misinfo Elab Share	Truth-only	Truth Elab	Truth-only Share	Truth Elab Share	Age
Misinfo-only	0.866**	0.393**	0.434**	0.038	− 0.018	− 0.031	− 0.023	− 0.299**
Misinfo Elab		0.320**	0.409**	0.131	0.046	− 0.066	0.601**	− 0.315**
Misinfo-only Share			0.946**	− 0.089	− 0.096	0.656**	0.608**	0.081
Misinfo Elab Share				− 0.071	− 0.109	0.665**	0.601**	0.001
Truth-only					0.866**	0.271*	0.269*	− 0.181
Truth Elab						0.234*	0.316**	− 0.206
Truth-only Share							0.941**	0.074
Truth Elab Share								0.066

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