Confirmation Bias through Selective Overweighting of Choice-Consistent Evidence
This article explores how prior choices can bias their interpretation of new evidence, a phenomenon known as confirmation bias. The researchers developed a task to investigate how an initial decision affects the…
Confirmation bias and the persistence of misinformation on climate change
This article examines how confirmation bias sustains climate change misinformation, using an experimental study that varied message accuracy and content to observe participant reactions. The findings show that people’s perceptions and attitudes…
Belief echoes: The persistent effects of corrected misinformation
The paper investigates the phenomenon of “belief echoes,” where exposure to discredited negative information influences attitudes and beliefs. Through three experiments, the author demonstrates that these echoes can arise from both automatic…
A Cooling Climate for Change? Party Polarization and the Politics of Global Warming
The paper analyzes three cross-sectional polls conducted by the Gallup Organization at ten-year intervals (1990, 2000, and 2010) to examine the growing significance of partisan identification in shaping environmental concerns among the…
Posttruth, truthiness, and alternative facts: Information behavior and critical information consumption for a new age
The paper explores fake news, primarily created to generate profit through clicks and views while also serving to mislead the public. It highlights how quickly fabricated news can spread without verification, leading…
Examining the effectiveness of climate change frames in the face of a climate change denial counter-frame
The paper examines how framing anthropogenic climate change (ACC) affects public perceptions, particularly in the context of organized ACC denial present in U.S. media and culture. Through an experiment, the study tests…
Fake news and the willingness to share: a schemer schema and confirmatory bias perspective
The paper discusses a theoretical framework for how corporations and brands can effectively respond to the issue of fake news. It introduces a matrix that analyzes the interaction between the transparency of…
Deepfake news: AI-enabled disinformation as a multi-level public policy challenge
The paper examines the implications of “DeepFake” technology for democratic societies, highlighting the challenges posed by AI-generated multimedia disinformation. It analyzes DeepFakes at two levels: as a pervasive element in the information…
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity
This paper investigates the memory conformity effect, where individuals’ recollections of an event, such as a crime, can be influenced by discussing it with others. The study aims to enhance the quality…
From individual to collective: Collective memory from a psychological perspective.
This paper discusses the evolution of collective memory research, contrasting Maurice Halbwachs’s sociological perspective with the more individualistic approach often taken in psychological studies. It argues that psychology’s focus on individual memory…
