https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm konane's Blog: How Millions Were Duped By Russiagate: The "Illusory Truth" Effect en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204549 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204549 Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:14:30 GMT konane Thanks Mike. Wow! Some will still be pushing that false narrative leading up to the 2020 election.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204541 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204541 Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:40:09 GMT mikeintexas I just read there were nearly a half million SEPARATE articles published on the "Russian collusion" hoax.

]]> mikeintexas https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204528 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204528 Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:03:41 GMT konane Thanks Jarasan. Much easier and faster to be lead than stop to think things through and feel what the gut says is true for them.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204527 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204527 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:52:20 GMT jarasan Yup!

]]> jarasan https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204525 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204525 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:49:25 GMT konane Thanks Sully. I think some look at how their family viewed things without considering the ground has moved under everyone's feet changing the entire landscape of their reality. Dem party has been sliding leftish for years but have strapped a retro rocket to themselves in the last few years.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204519 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm#c204519 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:09:06 GMT sully16 Some people don't or won't see the truth no matter what, they want to be the victim or just can't admit they were wrong.

]]> sully16 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2019/3/how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate-the-i.htm Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:05:01 GMT konane Good article if you have time.

How Millions Were Duped By Russiagate: The Illusory Truth Effect

........The answer is that they were told that the Russiagate narrative was legitimate over and over again by politicians and mass media pundits, and, because of a peculiar phenomenon in the nature of human cognition, this repetition made it seem true.

The rather uncreatively-named illusory truth effect describes the way people are more likely to believe something is true after hearing it said many times. This is due to the fact that the familiar feeling we experience when hearing something we ve heard before feels very similar to our experience of knowing that something is true. When we hear a familiar idea, its familiarity provides us with something called cognitive ease, which is the relaxed, unlabored state we experience when our minds aren t working hard at something. We also experience cognitive ease when we are presented with a statement that we know to be true.

We have a tendency to select for cognitive ease, which is why confirmation bias is a thing; believing ideas which don t cause cognitive strain or dissonance gives us more cognitive ease than doing otherwise. Our evolutionary ancestors adapted to seek out cognitive ease so that they could put their attention into making quick decisions essential for survival, rather than painstakingly mulling over whether everything we believe is as true as we think it is. This was great for not getting eaten by saber-toothed tigers in prehistoric times, but it s not very helpful when navigating the twists and turns of a cognitively complex modern world. It s also not helpful when you re trying to cultivate truthful beliefs while surrounded by screens that are repeating the same bogus talking points over and over again. ....

....This explains why we all know people who are extraordinarily intelligent, but still bought into the Russiagate narrative just as much as our less mentally apt friends and acquaintances. Their intelligence didn t save them from this debunked conspiracy theory, it just made them more clever in finding ways of defending it. This is because the illusory truth effect largely bypasses the intellect, and even one s own stored knowledge, because of the way we all reflexively select for cognitive ease. ....

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