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Corneille, Olivier, Mierop, Adrien and Unkelbach, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-3793-6246 (2020). Repetition increases both the perceived truth and fakeness of information: An ecological account. Cognition, 205. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1873-7838

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Abstract

People believe repeated statements more compared to new statements - they show a truth by repetition effect. In three pre-registered experiments, we show that repetition may also increase perceptions that statements are used as fake news on social media, irrespective of the factual truth or falsehood of the statements (Experiment 1 & 2), but that repetition reduces perceptions of falsehood when the context of judgment is left unspecified (Experiment 3). On a theoretical level, the findings support an ecological account of repetition effects, as opposed to either a fluency-as-positivity or to an amplification account of these effects. On a practical level, they qualify the influence of repetition on the perception of fake news.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Corneille, Olivier UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mierop, Adrien UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Unkelbach, Christian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-6246 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-310314
DOI:	10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104470
Journal or Publication Title:	Cognition
Volume:	205
Date:	2020
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-7838
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language CONTINUED INFLUENCE; FLUENCY; FREQUENCY; JUDGMENTS; MEMORY; MISINFORMATION; BELIEFS; STIMULI; MODEL; MIND Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31031