The face of illusory truth: Repetition of information elicits affective facial reactions predicting judgments of truth.

People tend to judge repeated information as more likely true compared with new information. A key explanation for this phenomenon, called the illusory truth effect, is that repeated information can be processed more fluently, causing it to appear more familiar and trustworthy. To consider the funct...

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Published in:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 769 - 783
Main Authors: Stump, Annika, Wüstenberg, Torsten, Rouder, Jeffrey N., Voss, Andreas
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2025
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