We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

Exposures to inaccurate information can lead people to become confused about what is
true, to doubt their understandings, and to rely on the ideas later. Recent work has begun to …

The current study investigated the role of metacognition with respect to the consequences of
exposures to inaccurate information. Previous work has consistently demonstrated that …

People are exposed to inaccurate claims and ideas every day from sources intended to
inform, entertain, or do both. A large body of research has demonstrated that exposures to …

Past research has independently examined the concepts of certainty and future thought.
Here we combine these concepts by examining the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of …

In an era of post-truth, the rise of alternative information sources is often blamed for the
spread of misinformation. This study responds to a call for rediscovering the role of …

Collaboration can support performance on a variety of tasks, but recent projects have
indicated that group collaborations can also be associated with memory decrements. For …

People can update their misconceptions or false beliefs by learning from corrective sources.
However, research has shown that people vary drastically in the extent to which they learn …

In addition to accurate information, people also acquire inaccurate information (ie, a type of
semantically inconsistent information) when reading fictional texts. This can result from low …

Corrections to readers' misconceptions should result in higher belief when information
sources are of high credibility. However, evaluations of credibility may be malleable, and we …