… We argue that cognitive ability may play a crucial role in this process of (not) adjusting
initial … Indeed, although cognitive ability refers to the capability to execute higher cognitive …

… online fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, this study shows the extent to
which individuals with different cognitive abilities accept fake news … point for fake news rebuttal …

… from real news tended to be worse for the associative infer… cognitive ability are likely to
be susceptible to form the belief of fake news, but differently from those of low cognitive ability. …

… true news from fake news and how these fake news affect … The ability to check on the
information spread in online … of fake news, hoaxes, and others on the youth’s cognitive ability. …

… fake news, people are ‘better’ at discerning truth from falsehood (despite greater overall belief)
when evaluating politically concordant news. … visit fake news websites or share fake news …

… Yet, people can detect fake news beyond their ability or “willingness to think analytically” (…
victim to believing fake news despite different but related cognitive abilities–perhaps owing …

… In the context of this study, cognitive ability is … news skepticism. Recent disinformation
research suggests that those with higher cognitive skills perform better in discerning fake news …

… Here, we investigate whether an animal’s cognitive profile affects its decision to use either
prior … variation in social learning in a lizard, possibly mirroring variation in cognitive abilities. …

… As discussed earlier, individuals high in analytic cognitive ability appear to be better at
identifying fake news (Pennycook & Rand, 2019b). A hypothesis that follows naturally from this is …

… In contrast to the above accounts, both studies investigate the momentary conditions, rather
than stable cognitive features, as sources of variation in fake news detection accuracy. In …