Making up History: False Memories of Fake News Stories

Making up History: False Memories of Fake News Stories

Previous research has shown that information that is repeated is more likely to be rated as true than information that has not been heard before. The current experiment examines whether familiarity with false news stories would increase rates of truthfulness and plausibility for these events. Furthe...

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Main Author: Danielle C. Polage
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2012-05-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
Subjects:
illusory truth
source
false memory
familiarity
Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/456

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