11 minutes agoPeople misremember the facts, spread false warnings when talking to others.
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(6 years ago)The human brain mistakenly remembers the hard facts in order to support their views on controversial topics, a study has found. When such conversations are transmitted to other people, the figures are further distorted according to this study. Researchers received four questionable social subjects and received [...]
When such conversations are transmitted to other people, the figures are further distorted according to this study.
Researchers received four questionable social subjects and questioned participants to see if they would remember the statistics.
They discovered that humans naturally, and without realizing it, rotate images to conform to their views.
For example, when statistics were presented that the number of American immigrants had dropped by 1.1 million between 2007 and 2014, participants who disagreed with immigration distorted the facts.
Many people believe that the number of Mexican immigrants was higher in 2014 than 2007. When they were introduced with actual figures showing the opposite ʹ 12.8 million in 2008 and 11.7 million in 2014, people misremembered information.
“People can generate their dezination. It all doesn't come from external sources,” said study lead author Jason Coronel, an assistant professor of communication at the State University of Ohio.
Researchers then asked how this phenomenon was overcome around social circles. Participants in the study were asked to write down the numbers of Mexican immigrants in 2007 and 2014 as they related the facts earlier.
These figures then passed on to a second person, and the process was repeated, imitating the passage of information through different independent conversations, Kosovo Press broadcasts.
Researchers found that the more information was transmitted the more it came to resemble the person who passed the information.
Shannon Paulsen, a doctoral student in Ohio who conducted the study, said the first part of the experiment is interesting, but the second phase that reveals the spread of dezinforms is disturbing.
Now the matter is not just you, but now you're sharing information,” she said.
While Coronal added: “if you don't consider what you remember and decide to talk about it and toʹte over another person, you've simply become an external source of dezinformation. ”
