PSY 24000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stroop Effect, Scientific Misconduct, Cognitive Miser
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People claiming vaccines cause autism, that iea spreads. Even though court ruled that mmr vaccine doesnt cause autism, and many studies were done and none could connect vaccines w autism- ppl didnt believe it. Vaccination rates dropped and number of ppl with measles and mumps increased. It has been described as the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years . Misinformation is sticky - ppl cant seem to let go of it. Simply accepting a message as true and the source as credible is easier than weighing the plausibility of the message and its source. Misinformation is especially sticky if the topic isnt very important to u. What is social cognition: or if u have other things on ur mind. Impossible to understand ppl without examining how they think and feel. 1970s, social psychologists began to focus their studies on peoples thoughts and feelings.
