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The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. [1] This phenomenon was first identified in a 1977 study at Villanova University and Temple University.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of ...
The Washington Post fact-checker created a new category of falsehoods in 2018, the "Bottomless Pinocchio," for falsehoods repeated at least twenty times (so often "that there can be no question the politician is aware his or her facts are wrong"). Trump was the only politician who met the standard of the category, with 14 statements that ...
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1.3 Who said "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"? 11 comments. 1.4 Measuring the Effectiveness of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 2 comments. 1.5 Scams. 2 ...
Because people tend to tell the truth more often than they lie (e.g., [20]) and because individuating cues are typically not diagnostic, [19] ALIED argues that this is why people are biased to believe others show the truth bias: it is not a default of honesty (as TDT would claim), but an adaptive and functional decision that reflects the best ...
Conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson vented his frustration during the debate, posting on X that Trump’s “stupid” advisers “got Trump to repeat your lie about the pets.”
Instead, they found that men said please about as often as women — in 6% vs. 7% of requests. However, people of any gender used please more often when they were asking men for something.