Nadia M Brashier
Biographic Data
| ID | 9079251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia M Brashier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brashier |
| SIGNATURE | BRASHIER N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8039-9477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Retrieval fluency inflates perceived preparation for difficult problems
When faced with a difficult problem, people often rely on past experiences. While remembering clearly helps us reach solutions, can retrieval also lead to misperceptions of our abilities? In three experiments, participants encountered “worst case scenarios” they likely had never experienced and that would be difficult to navigate without extensive training (e.g., bitten by snake). Learning brief tips improved problem-solving performance later, bu…
Linking creativity and false memory
Judging Truth
Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect inferences drawn from three types of information: base rates, feelings, and consistency with information retrieved from memory. First, people exhibit a bias to accept incoming information, because most claims in our environments are true. Second, people interpret feelings, like ease of …
An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth
Aging in an Era of Fake News
Misinformation causes serious harm, from sowing doubt in modern medicine to inciting violence. Older adults are especially susceptible - they shared the most fake news during the 2016 US election. The most intuitive explanation for this pattern blames cognitive deficits. While older adults forget where they learned information, fluency remains intact and decades of accumulated knowledge helps them evaluate claims. Thus, cognitive declines cannot …
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Judging Truth
Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect inferences drawn from three types of information: base rates, feelings, and consistency with information retrieved from memory. First, people exhibit a bias to accept incoming information, because most claims in our environments are true. Second, people interpret feelings, like ease of …
An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth
Aging in an Era of Fake News
Misinformation causes serious harm, from sowing doubt in modern medicine to inciting violence. Older adults are especially susceptible - they shared the most fake news during the 2016 US election. The most intuitive explanation for this pattern blames cognitive deficits. While older adults forget where they learned information, fluency remains intact and decades of accumulated knowledge helps them evaluate claims. Thus, cognitive declines cannot …
Linking creativity and false memory
Retrieval fluency inflates perceived preparation for difficult problems
When faced with a difficult problem, people often rely on past experiences. While remembering clearly helps us reach solutions, can retrieval also lead to misperceptions of our abilities? In three experiments, participants encountered “worst case scenarios” they likely had never experienced and that would be difficult to navigate without extensive training (e.g., bitten by snake). Learning brief tips improved problem-solving performance later, bu…
Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Fake news (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Internet privacy (2 works)