Providing a decorative photograph along with information could make people accept the claim regardless of the fact whether the information is true or not, a new study reveals. Scientists in New Zealand and Canada examined the phenomenon Stephen Colbert, comedian and news satirist, calls "truthiness"-the feeling that something is true. "We wanted to examine how the kinds of photos people see every day-the ones that decorate newspaper or TV headlines, ...Saturday, 11 August 2012
Providing Images Will Make People Believe Accompanying Information to be True
Providing a decorative photograph along with information could make people accept the claim regardless of the fact whether the information is true or not, a new study reveals. Scientists in New Zealand and Canada examined the phenomenon Stephen Colbert, comedian and news satirist, calls "truthiness"-the feeling that something is true. "We wanted to examine how the kinds of photos people see every day-the ones that decorate newspaper or TV headlines, ...
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