8 In an experimental study, 8 people were asked to judge the truth or falsity of social media statements. They accepted information as true when most things in that environment were taken to be true, ...

The illusory truth effect is the tendency for any statement that is repeated frequently—whether it is factually true or not, whether it is even plausible or not—to acquire the ring of truth.

“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is ... if they are true or not.