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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Publicado en:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 769 - 783
Autores principales: Stump, Annika, Wüstenberg, Torsten, Rouder, Jeffrey N., Voss, Andreas
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2025
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          Stump, Annika
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