Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon

his study investigated the cognitive processing of true and false political information. Specifically, it examined the impact of source credibility on the assessment of veracity when information comes from a polarizing source (Experiment 1), and effectiveness of explanations when they come from one&...

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Main Authors: Lewandowsky, Stephan, Ecker, Ullrich K. H., Swire-Thompson, Briony, Berinsky, Adam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Royal Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110045
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-9396