I chose to do my reflection on Maddie’s presentation about illusion truth theory. I honestly thought it was so interesting how it’s a reoccurring statement that makes more people more likely to believe it even if it’s not true at all. How it started as an experiment to repeat a statement and how to make more people believe it. People were shown claims somewhere, some were true and some were false. The researchers found that more people were likely to trust the claim, even though it wasn’t fully accurate. It's just people were getting influenced by the perception of the truth.
She goes into how the illusion truth effect was really affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic was claimed as a “deliberate biological weapon” that was spread through very quickly and was believed as a claim which was lacking in credibility. There was information getting shared online rapidly during Covid, but there were often not accurate sources giving accurate sources. With all the different posts through social media people still didn’t know what was false information yet a lot of people believed it all to be true. It shows kind of the same experiment that the researchers did, but this one was a real event, but there were some fake accusations during the time.
I like how Maddie included the illusory truth effect since it puts accurate educational material in the public spotlight and highlights the possible harm of sharing incorrect information. Since our younger generation is all online and social media it’s easier for them to see false information and believe it’s true. This is especially true for children, as I mentioned prior. In our new generations, with everything on social media, they may believe anything they see, but if they are aware of this, I think it will be very beneficial for our future.
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