Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines

What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and "fake news"? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that deliberation causes people to fall for fake news, because reasoning facilitates identity-protective cognition and is therefore used to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rand, David Gertler
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association (APA) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130414