{"id":167714,"date":"2023-07-17T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/intentions-matter-how-source-intent-influences-perceptions-of-truth"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:22:24","slug":"intentions-matter-how-source-intent-influences-perceptions-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/intentions-matter-how-source-intent-influences-perceptions-of-truth","title":{"rendered":"Intentions Matter: How Source Intent Influences Perceptions of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intentions-matter-how-source-intent-influences-perceptions-of-truth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Psychologists revealed people\u2019s judgments of truthfulness are influenced by what they perceive as the information source\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n<p>They found that even when individuals knew the factual accuracy of a claim, their judgment of its truth was affected by whether they thought the source was trying to deceive or inform them. This tendency held true for both politicized and non-politicized topics.<\/p>\n<p>This research uncovers a new facet of truth perception, showing that objective accuracy is not the only criterion considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Psychologists revealed people\u2019s judgments of truthfulness are influenced by what they perceive as the information source\u2019s intentions. They found that even when individuals knew the factual accuracy of a claim, their judgment of its truth was affected by whether they thought the source was trying to deceive or inform them. This tendency held true [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}