The current review proposes that exposure to a specific untrustworthy source of information
engages a mode of thought—a distrust mindset—that is also evoked by incidental distrust …

Participant attentiveness is a concern for many researchers using Amazon's Mechanical
Turk (MTurk). Although studies comparing the attentiveness of participants on MTurk versus …

Confirmation bias is one of the most widely discussed epistemically problematic cognitions,
challenging reliable belief formation and the correction of inaccurate views. Given its …

A primary explanation for why individuals believe disinformation is the truth bias, a
predisposition to accept information as true. However, this bias is context-dependent, as …

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us, with the promise of advances such as 98
driverless cars, smart buildings, automated health diagnostics and improved security 99 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the effectiveness of systems for
ensuring cooperation in online transactions is impacted by a positivity bias in the evaluation …

Ease of processing—cognitive fluency—is a central input in assessments of truth, but little is
known about individual differences in susceptibility to fluency-based biases in truth …

Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform is a popular tool for scholars seeking a
reasonably representative population to recruit subjects for academic research that is …

Gullibility as a scientific concept does not currently feature prominently in social psychology
research, and one would search in vain the subject indexes of many social psychology …

We investigate the effect of partner communication on the level of professional skepticism in
auditor judgments and actions within the context of the fraud brainstorming discussion …