Individuals who fail a test of cognitive reflectiveness are more likely to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and also less likely to characterize the January 6 Capitol attack as violent and extreme, according to new research published in American Behavioral Scientist. The new study indicates that fact-checking articles by media organizations can successfully influence attitudes about the 2020 election, particularly among those who are show a greater ability to correct faulty intuitions. “We have been interested in fact-checking for several years, so when we realized that n…
