Some were statements of religious belief, some of religious disbelief. Some were statements about more ordinary facts. Participants had to push buttons—indicating true or false—as the ...

In this article, we’ll discuss the common confusions between the two, the basic problem with which is that by giving a belief the power of fact, you encourage self-limiting beliefs, which are ...

“In fact,” they write, “these results suggest that partisan identity is roughly 12× more powerful than fact-checks in shaping belief in misinformation.” And just because the corrections didn’t ...

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For more than two millennia philosophers and psychologists have discovered and rediscovered a prevailing psychological truth: Intuition and fiercely held beliefs often guide us more than the facts.

for instance. And so I would say the world of fact-checking appears to be one that’s mostly concentrated on beliefs, not necessarily attitudes. So the idea is taking discrete events that are ...

The latest data shows people vaccinated for COVID-19 make up about 60% of those dying from the disease, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Those findings, highlighted in a Nov. 23 ...

We would like to think that we are rational people who resolve the conflict objectively, changing our beliefs when the facts warrant it and holding firm when they don’t. We would like to think ...