Nov 19, 2019
5 min read
Why Fake News Is Candy to Our Brains
Memory bias causes people to hold on to the (true and untrue) stories we like
Human memory is notoriously fallible. Experiments by Elizabeth Loftus in the 1970s demonstrated this particularly well. Loftus asked people to watch videos of car accidents and then answer a simple question: “About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?” The…
