Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political
propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …

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 …

Abstract Thinking is accompanied by metacognitive experiences of ease or difficulty. People
draw on these experiences as a source of information that can complement or challenge the …

This article reviews recent evidence for the benefits of negative affect for thinking and
behavior, consistent with evolutionary theories suggesting an adaptive function for all …

Educational settings are replete with affective experiences, anxiety and fun, frustration and
fulfillment, disappointment and pride. The relationship between affect and cognition is …

The rise of populism and the challenge it represents for the orderly functioning of liberal
democracies is certainly one of the most important questions in contemporary public life …

This research demonstrates how counterfactual thoughts can lead people to excuse others
for telling falsehoods. When a falsehood aligned with participants' political preferences …

How does affect influence gullibility? After a brief consideration of the nature of gullibility, I
describe a series of experiments that explored the prediction that in situations in which close …

This study uses an experiment with 102 Singaporean working adults to examine the effects
of salespersons' retail service quality (SRSQ) and consumers' mood on impulse buying (IB) …