Individual Differences in Resistance to Truth Decay: Exploring the Role of Reasoning and Cognitive Biases (Countering Truth Decay) - Softcover

Matthews, Luke J; Parker, Andrew M; Carman, Katherine Grace; Kerber, Rose; Kavanagh, Jennifer

 
9781977408921: Individual Differences in Resistance to Truth Decay: Exploring the Role of Reasoning and Cognitive Biases (Countering Truth Decay)

Synopsis

The authors describe development of a survey measure that they used to examine characteristics of human cognitive processing (such as cognitive biases) and assess the results for individual resistance to some aspects of Truth Decay, including blurring of the line between opinion and fact and diminished trust in formerly respected institutions as sources of factual information.

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