The Illusory Truth Effect!3 Feb 2021 12:39
If you're reading this BB regularly, (especially since SYME self suspended) you're being bombarded with negative posts, bizarrely a lot of them from people who are not invested!
Why is this and what are they looking to achieve? I believe there are people who are just plain negative but others have a more sinister agenda and are using these tactics to manipulate your thoughts and convince you to sell up in a panic once the suspension is lifted!
There a name for this.........
The Illusory Truth Effect:
From Wikipedia,
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.[2][3] When truth is assessed, people rely on whether the information is in line with their understanding or if it feels familiar. The first condition is logical, as people compare new information with what they already know to be true. Repetition makes statements easier to process relative to new, unrepeated statements, leading people to believe that the repeated conclusion is more truthful. The illusory truth effect has also been linked to hindsight bias, in which the recollection of confidence is skewed after the truth has been received.
In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain fact is wrong can affect the hearer's beliefs.[4] Researchers attributed the illusory truth effect's impact on participants who knew the correct answer to begin with, but were persuaded to believe otherwise through the repetition of a falsehood, to "processing fluency".
The illusory truth effect plays a significant role in such fields as election campaigns, advertising, news media, and political propaganda.
Trust your research, trust the RNS, don't be influenced by The Illusory Effect.
GLALTH our time will come.