Cognitive susceptibility to false information
Abstract
False informations through the media are not a novel phenomenon. However, access to Internet, its settings, and an usage of useful tools such as social media promote the polarization and comparison, taking precedence an emotional and ambiguous analysis of facts. A theoretical review is presented with the main goal to detail the principal psychological mechanisms that operate in the processing of false information, focusing in a specific way in the motivated reasoning hypothesis, cognitive bias and dual-process theory.
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