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 …

Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

The illusory truth effect occurs when the repetition of a claim increases its perceived truth.
Previous studies have demonstrated the illusory truth effect with true and false news …

The 2016 US presidential election brought considerable attention to the phenomenon of
“fake news”: entirely fabricated and often partisan content that is presented as factual. Here …

Highlights•Accuracy of true and fake news consistent with own political attitudes is
overrated.•Analytical thinking and susceptibility to falling for fake news are negatively …

What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves
attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact …

Why is misleading partisan content believed and shared? An influential account posits that
political partisanship pervasively biases reasoning, such that engaging in analytic thinking …

What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the
psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to which reason and …

The extent to which belief in (mis) information reflects lack of knowledge versus a lack of
motivation to be accurate is unclear. Here, across four experiments (n= 3,364), we motivated …

Politically oriented “fake news”—false stories or headlines created to support or attack a
political position or person—is increasingly being shared and believed on social media …