Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.

= 1,635 Mechanical Turkers) were presented with a series of headlines. For each, they were first asked to give an initial, intuitive response under time pressure and concurrent working memory load. They were then given an opportunity to rethink their response with no constraints, thereby permitting more deliberation. We also compared these responses to a (deliberative) 1-response baseline condition where participants made a single choice with no constraints. Consistent with the classical account, we found that deliberation corrected intuitive mistakes: Participants believed false headlines (but not true headlines) more in initial responses than in either final responses or the unconstrained 1-response…

• WA
  William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• MF
  Miami Foundation
• AN
  Agence Nationale de la Recherche

  Awards: ANR-17-EURE-0010, 17-EURE-0010, ANR-17-EURE-, ANR-17
• FW
  Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
• VR
  Vlaamse regering
• SS
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada