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Direct linkRaoul Bell; Lena Nadarevic; Laura Mieth; Axel Buchner – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
In present-day digital environments, people frequently encounter content from sources of questionable trustworthiness. Advertising is an untrustworthy source because its purpose is to persuade consumers rather than to provide impartial information. One factor known to enhance the perceived truth of advertising claims is repetition: Repeated…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Critical Literacy, Credibility
Nicole Antes; Stephan Schwan; Markus Huff – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
In today's rapid dissemination of information, discerning truth from falsehood is crucial. We investigated how cues signaling information veracity influence memory accuracy and confidence in coherent narratives. Two studies manipulated perceptual difficulty in distinguishing true-labeled from false-labeled information in event descriptions using…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Cues, Accuracy
Pehlivanoglu, Didem; Lin, Tian; Deceus, Farha; Heemskerk, Amber; Ebner, Natalie C.; Cahill, Brian S. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Aim: Previous research has focused on accuracy associated with real and fake news presented in the form of news headlines only, which does not capture the rich context news is frequently encountered in real life. Additionally, while previous studies on evaluation of real and fake news have mostly focused on characteristics of the evaluator (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Reading, Evaluative Thinking, Credibility
