When semantically related-photos appear with true-or-false trivia claims, people more often rate the claims as true compared to when photos are absent—truthiness. This occurs even when the photos lack information useful for assessing veracity. We tested whether truthiness changed in magnitude as...
Participants ranging in age from 3 to 98 years (N = 708; approximately 60% female; 49% Caucasian, 38% Asian; 12% Other ethnicities, 1% Indigenous; modal household income > $80,000) completed a battery of tasks involving verbal ability, executive function, and perspective-taking. Wherever possible...
