What is it about?
Does reading the same newspaper or social media headline a second time affect people's perceptions of its truth? We found that participants were more likely to judge a statement as “true” if they reported they had seen it before in our study than if they reported they hadn't. Importantly, this effect was stronger when people factually remembered whether the statement was old or new than when they guessed.
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Why is it important?
Our results show that people are more likely to believe statements that have been repeated, even if they recognize that the repetition comes from the same source. This effect is stronger the better people can distinguish between old and new statements, so a good memory makes people more susceptible to this truth effect.
Perspectives
We hope this article encourages more research into how episodic memory processes affect judgments of truth.
Lena Nadarevic
Charlotte Fresenius Hochschule
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This page is a summary of: On the relationship between recognition judgments and truth judgments: Memory states moderate the recognition-based truth effect., Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, February 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001460.
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