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The psychology of fake news

Fake news is a challenge to the scientific goals of truth and evidence. Hugh Coolican looks at how we can uphold our scientific principles and how psychology can explain our inclination to believe false information

Fake news about immunisations has had very real consequences

Go to www.hoddereducation.co.uk/psychologyreviewextras for a graphical spread summarising research into fake news.

Albert Einstein wrote: ‘Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.’

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