Publications by authors named "Michael C Schwalbe"
Article Synopsis
- - Resistance to truth and vulnerability to falsehood present significant threats to democracies worldwide, as shown by a study examining beliefs in real vs. fake political headlines among Trump supporters and opponents during the 2020 election.
- - The study found that people were more likely to believe and share headlines that aligned with their political views rather than those that were true, a tendency that persisted across different education levels and reasoning abilities.
- - Key factors influencing this "concordance-over-truth" bias included belief in the objectivity of one’s political side, strong opinions about Trump, and consumption of one-sided media; notably, those with higher analytic reasoning could better identify truths when they matched their ideology.
The objectivity illusion and voter polarization in the 2016 presidential election.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
September 2020
Two studies conducted during the 2016 presidential campaign examined the dynamics of the objectivity illusion, the belief that the views of "my side" are objective while the views of the opposing side are the product of bias. In the first, a three-stage longitudinal study spanning the presidential debates, supporters of the two candidates exhibited a large and generally symmetrical tendency to rate supporters of the candidate they personally favored as more influenced by appropriate (i.e.
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