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Why Do We Fall For Fake News? Researchers Have Theories

IDEAS Posted: January 22, 2019 10:26 am

Much of the debate among researchers falls into two opposing camps. One group claims that our ability to reason is hijacked by our partisan convictions: that is, we’re prone to rationalization. The other group — to which the two of us belong — claims that the problem is that we often fail to exercise our critical faculties: that is, we’re mentally lazy. – The New York Times

IDEAS Published: 01.20.19

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