Truth and consequence - 2025.12.17 study (revised preregistration)

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Authors: Isaac J Handley-Miner
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Abstract

Are people more likely to consider a claim of fact to be false if discrepancies between the claim and the ground truth cause an outcome that wouldn’t have occurred if the claim had been perfectly accurate? If so, how is this influenced by the magnitude of the downstream outcome and whether the downstream outcome was good or bad?

Publication details

Journal / source
Open Science Framework
Publication date
1 January 2026