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Dark personality traits make people susceptible to fake news
phys ^ | 10/20/2022

Posted on 10/20/2022 11:57:25 AM PDT by devane617

People who deny the existence of facts believe in fake news more often. People with dark personality traits—those who always put their own benefit first—are particularly often affected.

These are the findings of a new study at the Human-Computer-Media Institute at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. "Some people believe fake news even when the scientific facts clearly contradict them," says psychologist Jan Philipp Rudloff. "We wanted to know why this is the case and investigate the role played by our ideas about the nature of knowledge and facts."

Rudloff, who is doing his Ph.D. at the department of communication psychologist Professor Markus Appel, conducted an extensive experiment on this matter. Together with Appel he confronted more than 600 individuals from the U.S. with various short headlines—such as " Trump's first three years created 1.5 million fewer jobs than Obama's last three." Participants were asked to assess the accuracy of these statements.

Epistemic beliefs were assessed with a questionnaire

Afterwards, they filled out a comprehensive questionnaire. Among other things, the participants were asked to indicate how much they trust their gut feeling when evaluating the accuracy of information, how important solid evidence is to them and how much they assume that politics, science and the media "fabricate" facts according to their interests.

"We summarize these aspects as 'epistemic beliefs,'" Rudloff explains—epistéme comes from the Greek and means "cognition" or "knowledge."

(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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I wonder how "facts" would go over with these folks if presented? Facts about crime? Facts about energy? Facts about the economy? etc., etc.
1 posted on 10/20/2022 11:57:25 AM PDT by devane617
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People who deny the existence of facts believe in fake news more often.

a.k.a. POS libtard filth

2 posted on 10/20/2022 12:00:24 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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The fact that one of the questions was about Trump suggests a distinct possibility of confirmation bias in this study. The study is probably intended to confirm the biases of those doing the study.


3 posted on 10/20/2022 12:02:29 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Well there was that “dark” speech Trump gave. 🙄


4 posted on 10/20/2022 12:02:55 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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The Russia-hoax and catastrophic-AGW believers fit the mold quite nicely.


5 posted on 10/20/2022 12:02:56 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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I wonder what the researchers consider to be facts.


6 posted on 10/20/2022 12:05:25 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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"Some people believe fake news even when the scientific facts clearly contradict them,"

I want to see examples --

"The fact is, Carbon dioxide is a deadly pollutant. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, climate change is real. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, the COVID vaccine has saved billions of lives. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, Donald Trump is a poopy-head. Why don't you believe the science?"

7 posted on 10/20/2022 12:05:40 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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Try talking facts with global warming enthusiasts. They are immune.


8 posted on 10/20/2022 12:06:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.. )
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To: Common Sense 101

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD FOR 2 FRICKIN MINUTES NOT TO BECOME A HEALTHY SKEPTIC IN WHAT ANY HUMAN BEING TELLS YOU.

What in the hell kind of propaganda BS is this arse talking?

SO put that dark personality in your pipe and smoke it, because the last person I would ever trust is the first person who tells me I should be more trusting.


9 posted on 10/20/2022 12:06:56 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Scientific FACT: Your biological sex is determined by your feelings at the moment, and/or peer pressure/parents desire to virtue signal.


10 posted on 10/20/2022 12:08:19 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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" . . . and how much they assume that politics, science and the media "fabricate" facts according to their interests."

Are they saying that recognizing media bias and political bias is some kind of character flaw or psychological abnormality?
11 posted on 10/20/2022 12:08:22 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Related article about belief vote fraud demonstrators killed people.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4102131/posts


12 posted on 10/20/2022 12:08:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: z3n

Amen.


13 posted on 10/20/2022 12:09:10 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Talk about bending facts!

“”People with dark personality traits bend reality to their own liking. For example: I don’t wear a mask because the coronavirus was just invented by the media anyways,” Rudloff explains. “Bending the facts based on selfish motives works especially well when people are convinced that there are no independent scientific facts anyway.”


14 posted on 10/20/2022 12:10:13 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Who decides what is fake news?

15 posted on 10/20/2022 12:10:36 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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This gaslighting isn’t even subtle. I can’t even amuse myself with the “skill” here.


16 posted on 10/20/2022 12:10:42 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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More stupid Fake news.

It is the ‘decent’ people that are more susceptible to fake news. People good at heart, trusting, unable to accept conspiracies, fraud or criminal behavior from those in power, typically the elderly that have a more innate respect for institutions.

Those people are the most vulnerable to con artists and they are also the most vulnerable to be manipulated by biased news, using ‘facts’ to convince them.

A typical example is this garbage of a post expressing the opinions of an ‘expert’ in Germany


17 posted on 10/20/2022 12:10:47 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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DARK BRANDON RISES

(From Huffington Post)


18 posted on 10/20/2022 12:11:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Only people with dark personality traits would create fake news.
19 posted on 10/20/2022 12:11:34 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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“I wonder how “facts” would go over with these folks if presented?”

Exactly.

This is the old Soviet playbook. If you don’t agree with the Party, you are insane or evil. Or both.


20 posted on 10/20/2022 12:13:52 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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