AbstractWhat is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news?
Prior work on the psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the
extent to which reason and deliberation hinder versus help the formation of
accurate beliefs. Several studies have suggested that people who engage in more
reasoning are less likely to fall for fake news. However, the role of reliance
on emotion ... hiện toàn bộ
Violet A. Brown, Kristin J. Van Engen, Jonathan E. Peelle
Identifying speech requires that listeners make rapid use of fine-grained
acoustic cues—a process that is facilitated by being able to see the talker’s
face. Face masks present a challenge to this process because they can both alter
acoustic information and conceal the talker’s mouth. Here, we investigated the
degree to which different types of face masks and noise levels affect speech
intelligibi... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractRepeated information is often perceived as more truthful than new
information. This finding is known as the illusory truth effect, and it is
typically thought to occur because repetition increases processing fluency.
Because fluency and truth are frequently correlated in the real world, people
learn to use processing fluency as a marker for truthfulness. Although the
illusory truth effect ... hiện toàn bộ