People often pick up incorrect information about the world from movies, novels and other fictional sources. The question asked here is whether such sources are a particularly potent source of misinformation. On the one hand, story-reading involves transportation into a fictional world, with a possible reduction in access to one's prior knowledge (likely reducing the chances that the reader will...

Misinformation can be stories, hoaxes, or news deliberately created to spread false and deceive readers. Fake has always been a part of our lives. However, it become topic interest only recently. Majorly due the rise SOCIAL MEDIA. As stated in articles Supreme Court condemns these actions advice regulatory mechanism. use social media increased so, number unreliable sources. During covid, there ...

Here we provide a brief “primer” to assist healthcare providers in correcting growing body of misinformation surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. To date, just over 100 million immunizations have been administered, led by the United States accounting for more than one-third (35 million), followed China (24 million) and European Union (14 million). In 2020, up or people surveyed both globally indicate...

Misinformation in various guises has become a significant concern contemporary society and it been implicated several high-impact political events over the past years, including Brexit, 2016 American elections, bungled policy responses to Covid-19 pandemic some countries. In this paper, I draw on resources from social epistemology clarify why how misinformation is epistemically bad. argue that ...

We examined the relation between emotion and susceptibility to misinformation using a novel paradigm, the ambiguous stimuli affective priming (ASAP) paradigm. Participants (N = 88) viewed ambiguous neutral images primed either at encoding or retrieval to be interpreted as either highly positive or negative (or neutral/not primed). After viewing the images, they either were asked misleading or n...

Misinformation under the form of rumor, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories spreads on social media at alarming rates. One hypothesis is that, since social media are shaped by homophily, belief in misinformation may be more likely to thrive on those social circles that are segregated from the rest of the network. One possible antidote is fact checking which, in some cases, is known to stop rumors f...