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How to Stop Your Brain from Falling for Lies

Inquiring Minds

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The Truth Bias

The truth bias is something that appears to be built into the way we process information. We assume that what someone is telling us or what we read or any kind of information that's coming in from whatever source, we assume to start with that it's true. And this could be part of why sort of repeating lies tends to make them acquire a patina of truth.

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