FULL STORY:

Scientists have found an overlap between people who [/b]believe in fake news and religious fundamentalists, dogmatic people and those who harbor deluded ideas.[b]

Psychologists hope their findings can be used to battle the spread of false information online.

Often ambiguously used by President Donald Trump to attack legitimate news organizations, “fake news” is a contentious phrase, and its definition can vary greatly depending on its user. Last week, the British government went so far as to ban the term in official documents, after describing it as “poorly defined and misleading."
In the study published in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, fake news was defined as fabricated news stories presented as being from legitimate sources on social media, to deceive the public for ideological or financial gain.

The researchers investigated whether two styles of thought affected the likelihood of an individual believing fake news reports.

The first was actively open-minded thinking, where a person uses evidence to revise their beliefs, and seeks out alternative explanations to ensure they have an accurate understanding of any given topic, explained Michael Bronstein, author of the study at the Yale University Department of Psychology.

The second was analytic thinking. Bronstein told Newsweek: “Analytic thinking involves the disposition to initiate deliberate thought processes in order to reflect on intuitions and gut feelings.”

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Of course

Anyone who believes there is a man in the sky waiting to send everyone to hell definitely has issues

not surprising