Fake news can lead to false memories
Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to research in Psychological Science.
Aug 21, 2019
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Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to research in Psychological Science.
Aug 21, 2019
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People who receive reminders of past misinformation may form new factual memories with greater fidelity, according to an article published in the journal Psychological Science.
Oct 16, 2020
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In March, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, a tweet from the French Health Minister, Olivier VerĂ¡n, advised patients with COVID-19 not to take ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory drug with analgesic and ...
Sep 4, 2020
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Viewer preference for right-wing US TV media is linked to significantly fewer preventive measures against COVID-19 and behaviours likely to increase the risk of infection, finds research published in the online journal BMJ ...
Oct 8, 2020
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The stress of following daily political news can negatively affect people's mental health and well-being, but disengaging has ramifications, too, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Jan 13, 2023
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It never really dawned on me how vulnerable journalists were to trauma until I took a job as an investigative reporter. I spent most of 2021 and 2022 verifying, analyzing and writing stories about murder-suicides.
Jan 26, 2023
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Research regularly finds that Americans respond more strongly to negative news content, but a recent study suggests it's a global occurrence.
Sep 4, 2019
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We interrupt your latest binge of breaking political news, fear-provoking campaign commercials and angry posts from your favorite pundit to report that politics can be stressful.
Sep 23, 2020
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Slovakia's government is set to discuss possible use of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine with Moscow after it was successfully tested in a Hungarian lab.
May 9, 2021
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All war is always war on children. As a vulnerable population, children's lives are at the mercy of the adult community. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has threatened children's lives and severed them from their everyday ...
Mar 10, 2022
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