Newman quoted in OC Register, "Truth vs. Truthiness: A UCI researcher studies the difference"

November 2014

Eryn Newman, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Irvine’s Department of Criminology, Law & Society who specializes in human memory and decision-making, was recently quoted in the OC Register article, "Truth vs. Truthiness: A UCI researcher studies the difference." Part of the difference [between truth and truthiness] involves visual memory… “Several experiments… show that adding tangential information to a claim – such as photos, or an easy-to-pronounce name – can bias people to think claims are true,” Newman says…

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