On Trump And His Lies
The Illusory Truth Effect.
Here’s a good newsletter from
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In there, he goes over the definition of “the illusory truth effect,” I.e.:
Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as the repetition-based truth effect or, in short, the illusory truth effect. Information we hear again and again acquires a “stickiness” that affects our judgment, and the effects are neither fleeting nor sha…
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