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Nicole Antes; Stephan Schwan; Markus Huff – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
In today's rapid dissemination of information, discerning truth from falsehood is crucial. We investigated how cues signaling information veracity influence memory accuracy and confidence in coherent narratives. Two studies manipulated perceptual difficulty in distinguishing true-labeled from false-labeled information in event descriptions using…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Cues, Accuracy
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Olivia D. Perrin; Jinhyo Cho; Edward T. Cokely; Jinan N. Allan; Adam Feltz; Rocio Garcia-Retamero – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Numerate people tend to make more informed judgments and decisions because they are more risk literate (i.e., better able to evaluate and understand risk). Do numeracy skills also help people understand regular science reporting from mainstream news sources? To address this question, we investigated responses to regular science reports (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Critical Thinking, Evaluative Thinking, Bias