Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation, and Sincerity of Belief Reports

A key assumption of psychological research on belief in conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation is that participants provide sincere belief reports. However, this talk presents new empirical research suggesting that insincerely claiming to believe in misinformation while participating in psychology studies might be quite common.

Rob will also facilitate some discussion about whether there might be scope for using eye-trackers to study whether or not people believe statements that they read during the discussion.