False Alarm : The Truth about Political Mistruths in the Trump Era

Name: False Alarm
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108705929
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ISBN: 9781108705929

by Ethan Porter , Thomas J. Wood

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Elements in American Politics

ISBN-10 1108705928

ISBN-13 9781108705929

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 3rd, 2019

Print length 90 Pages

Weight 210 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 15.30 x 0.50 cms

Product Classification: Politics & government Politics and government Regional government policies Regional, state and other local government policies Political control & freedoms Political control and freedoms Public opinion & polls Public opinion and polls Corruption in politics, government and society Political corruption

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Does Trump's election mean Americans reflexively resist factual information? Evidence strongly suggests not. Americans across the political spectrum are responsive to factual information, even when facts undercut claims made by their party's politicians. However, being more factually accurate does not generally change people's political beliefs.

Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate. Instead, they become more accurate, even when corrections target co-partisans. Corrections of fake news yield similar results. Among Republicans, Trump's misstatements are less susceptible to corrections than identical misstatements attributed to other Republicans. While we do not observe facts affecting attitudes, multiple instances of misinformation can increase approval of the responsible politician - but corrections can reduce approval by similar amounts. While corrections do not eliminate false beliefs, they reduce the share of inaccurate beliefs among subjects in this study nearly in half.

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