Social media has become an integral part of our lives because of its popularity among users.
However, the dissemination of fake information has been a significant issue for marketers …

The illusory truth effect refers to the fact that repetition increases perceptions of truth. In these
experiments, we examined whether the magnitude of the illusory truth effect varies based …

Human adults distinguish their mental event simulations along various dimensions—most
prominently according to their “mnemicity”: we track whether these simulations are outcomes …

Children's testimonial learning often occurs in epistemic collaborations with others. In this
paper, we will discuss ways in which cultural learning emerges in social and interpersonal …

Overconfidence is typically damaging to one's reputation as a trustworthy source of
information. Previous research shows that the reputational cost associated with conveying a …

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003002277-12 7
Episodic memory And what is it for? Johannes B. Mahr 7.1 Introduction One might think that the …

In everyday conversation, messages are often communicated indirectly, implicitly. Why do
we seem to communicate so inefficiently? How speakers choose to express a message …

Hearing generic or other kind-relevant claims can influence the use of information from
direct observations in category learning. In the current study, we ask how both adults and …

Source representations play a role both in the formation of individual beliefs as well as in the
social transmission of such beliefs. Both of these functions suggest that source information …

When making inferences about a category of objects, learners use information from both
testimony and observation to decide which properties are kind-relevant. The current study …