People seek out situations that “fit,” but the concept of fit is not well understood. We introduce
S tate A uthenticity as F it to the E nvironment (SAFE), a conceptual framework for …

In the last few years, especially after the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US elections, there
has been a surge in academic interest for misinformation and disinformation. Social …

Researchers across many disciplines seek to understand how misinformation spreads with
a view toward limiting its impact. One important question in this research is how people …

Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as
imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of …

People believe repeated information more than novel information; they show a repetition-
induced truth effect. In a world of “alternative facts,”“fake news,” and strategic information …

To better understand the spread of fake news in the Internet age, it is important to uncover
the variables that influence the perceived truth of information. Although previous research …

Logos frequently include textual and/or visual design elements that are descriptive of the
type of product/service that brands market. However, knowledge about how and when logo …

People are more inclined to believe that information is true if they have encountered it
before. Little is known about whether this illusory truth effect is influenced by individual …

According to the hypotheses of distributed and extended cognition, remembering does not
always occur entirely inside the brain but is often distributed across heterogeneous systems …

The feeling of clarity can be dangerously seductive. It is the feeling associated with
understanding things. And we use that feeling, in the rough-and-tumble of daily life, as a …