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- Causal Information Affects Decisions https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-020-0206-z 4 comments
- People are poorer at correcting their memories of incorrect information when they feel under threat. https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00302-4 15 comments science
- News sources people consider to be “fake news” are ones that conflict with their worldviews or pre-existing political beliefs, suggests new research, which found that sources considered by conservatives to provide real news were considered by liberals to be fake news and propaganda, and vice versa. https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00278-1 2 comments science
- The 2016 US Presidential campaign saw an explosion in the use of the term “fake news,” which reflects a bias to disbelieve information that conflicts with existing beliefs and desires. People may discount information as “fake news” when it comes from a source that is politically incongruent. https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00278-1 5 comments science
- Group reasoning beats individual reasoning (again): the accuracy of people's answers increased significantly after they discussed their initial answers with each other. [Open Access] https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-020-00218-5 3 comments science
- Study suggests new generation of hyper-realistic masks fool humans 20 percent of the time - a number which could be higher in the wild when a mask is not suspected - masks cost $1000 or so to make https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-019-0197-9 10 comments science