Repetition-induced truth effect: is it altered when economic incentives appear?
People see, read and hear many different events and statements every day (news, social networks, conversations…) that they may doubt or believe. Apparently, people use repetition as a signal to lean one way or the other when it comes to making a decision about the veracity of what they hear. Therefore, they tend to believe statements that are repeated more, compared to statements that are repeated less. This phenomenon is known as the illusory truth effect, truth by repetition, or simply the truth effect. In a paper by Hasher in the 1970s, participants were presented with a total of 60 statements. Half of them were false and half were true. ….[READ]
Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by budgetbuddy.
Publisher: Source link
Publisher: Source link
