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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Published in:	Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 149; no. 8; p. 1608
Main Authors:	Bago, Bence, Rand, David G, Pennycook, Gordon
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.08.2020
Subjects:	Adult Deception Female Humans Intuition - physiology Male Mass Media Politics Thinking - physiology
ISSN:	1939-2222, 1939-2222
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