… Our research contributes to the relatively understudied topic of the tainted truth effect. We extend social cognition research on the tainted truth effect to a political setting, where post-event misinformation and information is presented in the form of political news. We first ask, after viewing a political event, how does later exposure to information or misinformation in a news article describing the political event alter individuals’ memory and recognition of the details from the original event? CONT.
Melanie Freeze, Mary Baumgartner, Peter Bruno, et al, Political Behavior
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