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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"false claims"”.
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How motivated reasoning leads to tolerance of false claims: Three experimental tests of mechanisms
… electoral events have been characterised by false claims which, despite abundant fact-checking, were often widely believed. This led to much talk about a ’post-truth’ politics. Meanwhile, an extensive literature confirms that false beliefs voters have about political issues are of- ten highly …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… Center of Metro New York, Inc. (ADC) under the False Claims Act for allegedly failing to meet its Affirmatively Further Fair Housing obligation for Community Development Block Grant funds received between 2000 and 2006. While Westchester County argued that it had an impressive affordable housing …
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Truth goggles : automatic incorporation of context and primary source for a critical media experience
Falsehoods come in many forms. Politicians and advertisers make false claims, newsrooms and bloggers make mistakes, and the ease of publication and sharing makes it easy for even the most incredible theories to quickly spread. The risk of interpreting fiction as truth is significant and it is only …
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Causal Inference in Psychology and Neuroscience: From Association to Causation
… about their results, and reluctant to make false claims about causality in non-experimental studies. Therefore, they adopt less stringent statistical analysis techniques that can only infer associational relations. However, the ambiguity about causality in traditional statistical analysis …
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A Thesis, Allegedly
… shared content and the reach or circulation of false claims. However, a focus on the truth value of content can obscure the embeddedness of information in social, communicative practices. One way of apprehending the sociocultural dimensions is through an analysis of the stances people take …
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Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation
… a particular negative claim about a candidate is false, but reasons that its presence increases the likelihood of other negative information being true. Experimental results suggest that while affective belief echoes are created across party lines, cognitive belief echoes are more likely when a …
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Reclaiming the estranged : imagining an architecture of excess
… Blanketing their concerns for capital in false claims of sustainable building practices, the construction industry deliberately fetishizes material optimization. However, when these building materials reach their expiration date, a collective admiration once again fades into disaffection …
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Crisis of consumerism: advertising, activism, and the battle over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1969—1980
… initiated to make advertisers accountable for false claims, as well as those that would limit advertising to children, were all a result of vigorous debates about how the U.S. media should serve in public interest. Using Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony as a theoretical lens, this …
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Through Smoke and Mirrors of the Post-Truth Era: Knowledge-Driven Generation as Algorithmic Resistance to Misinformation
… society. Research has shown that simply flagging false content is insufficient; providing users with well-grounded explanations of why a claim is false leads to more durable belief revision than mere labeling. Yet the volume at which misinformation spreads online far exceeds the capacity of manual …
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US foreign policy and energy resources during the George W. Bush administration
… US military power, fight terrorism (based on the false claims of Saddam Hussein’s ties to al Qaeda), secure Iraq’s oil resources and rebuild the country, using Iraq’s oil revenues. Thus Iraq would become a democratic model for the Middle East and a substitute for Saudi Arabia as America’s main …
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Essays on Dynamic Incentives
… one. Applications include filing insurance claims, employees who make costly mistakes and friends or colleagues who ask for favors. </p><p>In Chapter 2, I employ novel methods to investigate optimal project management in a setting plagued by unavoidable setbacks. The contractor can cover up …