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  • Social Psychology
  • Information Science

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  • Growing research interest in misinformation susceptibility and interventions.
  • Misinformation is conceptualized as a signal-detection problem for truth judgments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and challenge three common assumptions about misinformation.
  • To re-evaluate the roles of discernment ability, partisan bias, and gullibility.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of public and scientific discourse on misinformation.
  • Application of a signal-detection framework to truth judgments.

Main Results:

  • People are generally adept at distinguishing true from false information.
  • Partisan bias strongly and pervasively affects judgments of information.
  • Skepticism towards belief-incongruent true information exceeds gullibility to belief-congruent false information.

Conclusions:

  • Common assumptions about misinformation susceptibility are inaccurate.
  • Partisan bias and motivated skepticism are key factors in belief formation.
  • Findings inform the development of targeted, person-centered misinformation interventions.