The Effects of Repetition and Knowledge Neglect

Two psychological factors that can lead people to overlook misinformation are repetition and knowledge neglect. Lisipasio is a psychologist at vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee who studies ways to mitigate influence of misinformation. Vasio: We often encounter misinformation as we're strolling through social media, doing other things, kind of distracted, moving quickly. Those are the exact situations that you're least likely to notice the errors in what you're reading.