We have investigated the variation of the persuasive power of false rumors from the angle of the existence of "people's eating & drinking habit" (whether they are drinking or eating while perceiving the information). In our result, we have witnessed that reliability of the news is regarded ...
- Skeptical Inquirer "Simple but brilliant idea...if you want to know why people believe fake news... then this is the book to read." - The Skeptic. "Van der Linden has captured public imagination in a way few others haves" - Science Magazine 'Fascinating...
Fake news dissemination has increased greatly in recent years, with peaks during the US presidential elections and the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has addressed fake news creation, consumption, sharing, and detection as well as approaches to counteract it and prevent people from believing it. This...
”(Ludden, David. “Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?”PsychologyToday, Sussex Publishers) Human beings have a strong caving of knowing. When an idea or question is introduced to us we have to know the answer. This is why Hercule Poirot follows up the theories he is introduced ...
accessible in an instant through the peripheral brains that are our phones, it’s easy to end up placing our trust and mistrust in the wrong people. When we come to hold false beliefs, and cling to them despite counter-evidence, it’s often because we mistrust the people who are t...
A. what ways can be used to spread news B. how fake news spreads through different media C. what kind of people are likely to believe fake news D. how the presentation of news influences its believability 2. What can we learn from the passage? A. People are likely to believe informatio...
和第四段Seeingisbelieving.Peoplearemorelikelytoacceptmisinformationwhentheyseesomethinginavideo,"Sundarsaid.That'sespeciallytruewiththeriseofdeepfaketechnologies,whichcreatefakebutvisually(视觉上)believablevideos.("眼见为实。当人们在视频中看到某些东西时,他们更容易接受错误信息,"Sundar说。随着深度造假技术的兴起...
People remember the hits and forget the misses. In science, we keep the whole database, and look to see if the number of hits somehow stands out from the total number you'd expect by chance. 但是,在科学上我们必须记录那些不准的,不能只记准的。这也许就是我这简短演讲的重点,那就是这就...
Why do some people believe that the moon landings were fake? Why do others believe that secret societies like the Illuminate control world events? Why do people believe that Earth is flat? What is it that drives individuals to embrace these alternate explanations, often in the face of overwhelm...
“The point of Apollo to a large extent was to show the world that America could do the impossible and in an odd way the conspiracy theory is sort of like a dark mirror of that because it claims that America showed the world that it could make people believe the impossible rather than...