Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics
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Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics
Deciding whether a claim is true or false often requires a deeper understanding of the evidence supporting and contradicting the claim. However, when presented with many evidence documents, users do not necessarily read and trust them uniformly. Psychologists and other researchers have shown that users tend to follow and agree with articles and sources that hold viewpoints similar to their own,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2330-1635
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23274