Getty Images The 'illusion of truth' can be a dangerous ... and one where they just categorised each fact as "true" or "false". Repetition pushed the average item up the six-point scale, and ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Most important, while our prior knowledge helps us decide which statements are true or false, it does not protect us from the illusory truth effect.

A few years ago, a dress embroiled the Internet in a fierce debate over its true colors ... to guide us through the world. But optical illusions like the dress reveal glitches in our vision ...

If more people told you something was true, you'd think you would tend to believe it. Not according to a 2019 study by Yale University which found that people believe a single source of ...