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Please contact 2325019B@student.gla.ac.uk with any questions about this study.

Thank you for participating in our experiment. We have created an experiment that sets out to test Illusory Truth. The illusory truth effect is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. We believe that when faced with statements several times, people will believe that the statements they have seen before are more likely to be true than the statements they have seen once. We tested this through three methods - new statements that hadn't been seen before, original statements from the first round of the experiment, and paraphrased sentences of original statements. We hope that the distractor task in the middle will provide enough separation between tasks to provide effective results.

If you are interested in the Illusory Truth Effect, the following articles may be of interest: Newman, E. J., Jalbert, J. C., Norbert. S., Deva. P. L., (2020). Truthiness, the illusory truth effect, and the role of need for cognition. Conciousness and Cognition. Vol 78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102866

Pennycook, G., Cannon, T. D., Rand, D. G. (2017). Implausability and illusory truth: prior exposure increases percieved accuracy of fake news but has no effect on entirely implausible statements. Yale University. http://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/brenner/mar7588/Papers/pennycook-ssrn2017.pdf

Thank you again for your participation. If you have any further questions about the study, please do not hesitate to contact;

Ellie Brownlie – 2325019B@student.gla.ac.uk Robyn Craw - 2325357c@student.gla.ac.uk Niki Harvey – 2324375H@student.gla.ac.uk Sharon Young – 2325608y@student.gla.ac.uk Alexandra Gillan – 2328763g@student.gla.ac.uk

Supervisor: Dale Barr – dale.barr@glasgow.ac.uk