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7 Reasons Why We Fall for Fake News, Our brains have evolved to conserve…
7 Reasons Why We Fall for Fake News
5.Our emotions are targeted
High emotional responses makes you think irrational
Fake News can evoke strong emotions like fear and anger
If you're emotional you're not thinking rationally (critical thinking)
7 - Social pressure
Feeling of belonging
Maintaining the concepts of your social tribe.
Social influence
If you say something that people don't like, they'll cut ties with you.
Relationships
are based on similarities and common ground.
1. Confirmation Bias
Bias are inclinations against
something or someone.
They can be based on
stereotypes
.
Confirmation bias refers to our favoring of information that
confirms
our existing beliefs.
It's more likely for us to
fall for
fake news if they talk about subjects that we agree with.
We are cognitively lazy
They don't very much like spending energy when an intuitive decision can be made that is good enough.
We fail to engage evaluation and reflective judgment.
Attention and Impatience
•
Excess of Information
The excess of information users are often presented in the internet and social media, causing a disinterest in the users to checking the veracity
•
Sensasionalist Language
Fake news use sensationalist language to get the average reader attention
•
Shorter attention span
The human average attention span fell of considerably after the pandemics, because of the increased time in the internet and social media.
2 - Lack of creadibility evaluation
Searching for replication
Assessing the sources of the information
Digging deeper into the article
Our brains have evolved to conserve energy for "more important" tasks