Fake News in the Trump Era: Deciphering What’s True in a ...

Originating in Leon Festinger’s Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), ... and the possibility of limited time reducing a person’s cognitive processing of a news article. We tried to test this by timing four of our news items. A news article would pop up (two real, two fake), and then disappear after five seconds, leaving participants to ... ................
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