The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction Ullrich K. H. Ecker 1 ✉, Stephan Lewandowsky 2, John Cook3, Philipp Schmid 4, Lisa K. Fazio 5, Nadia Brashier6,7, Panayiota Kendeou8, Emily K. Vraga9 and Michelle A. Amazeen 10

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Misinformation — which we define as any information that turns out to be false — poses an inevitable challenge for human cognition and social interaction because it is a consequence of the fact that people frequently err and sometimes lie1. However, this fact is insufficient to explain the rise […]


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