Illusory truth effect

The illusory truth effect (also known as the truth effect, the illusion-of-truth effect, the reiteration effect, the validity effect, and the frequency-validity relationship) is the tendency to believe information to be correct after repeated exposure to the claim in question. This is an illusion that appears due to unconscious cognition.

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This phenomenon has been studied extensively, with the term first appearing in psychology literature in a psychology paper[2] from the late 1970s. The illusion is now backed up by several psychology experiments.[3]

The illusion is thought to be partly caused by the concept of processing fluency,File:Wikipedia's W.svg by which familiar concepts are more easily processed, tricking the mind into thinking something is true without any real evidence of it being so.

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References
  1. "The Truth Effect and Other Processing Fluency Miracles". Science Blogs.
  2. Frequency and the Conference of Referential Validity. Toronto University
  3. The Truth About the Truth: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Truth Effect. SAGE Journals
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