... and source are credited. repetition effects illusory consensus judgment and decision making metacognition misinformation social consensus false consensus John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 10.13039/100005959 University of Washington 10.13039/100007812 N/A People’s...

...Amy Mickelberg; Bradley Walker; Ullrich Ecker; Piers D L Howe; Andrew Perfors; Nicolas Fay; Simon Columbus Despite robust evidence that misinformation continues to influence event-related reasoning after a clear retraction, evidence for the continued influence of misinformation on person...

...Raunak M. Pillai; Lisa K. Fazio; Matt Williams Recent years have seen a growing interest among academics and the public in ways to curb the spread of misinformation on social media. A recent experiment demonstrated that explanation prompts—simply asking people to explain why they think information...

...Gordon Pennycook; Jabin Binnendyk; Christie Newton; David G. Rand; Matt Williams Coincident with the global rise in concern about the spread of misinformation on social media, there has been influx of behavioral research on so-called “fake news” (fabricated or false news headlines...

..., distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . illusory truth truth judgments knowledge truth misinformation Every day we are exposed to numerous claims about the world. Claims...