You keep seeing the same claim made over and over online—so it must be true, right? Not necessarily. You could be experiencing the illusory truth effect—the psychological phenomenon that makes us more likely to believe something that we repeatedly see or hear. It's also one of the ways that misinformation spreads, but you can learn to resist it. Learn more: https://at.apa.org/misinfo #facts #truth #misinformation #psychology | American Psychological Association

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In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence. | After Skool