ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Understanding how people discern the “truthfulness” of information is of fundamental importance to science. However, the complexity of dynamic information processing in social environments has made it convenient to “silo” research at different levels of analysis (neurological, psychological, social). To overcome this, we need end-to-end modeling that explains when and why people are vulnerable to falsehoods and mistruth. IDENTITY-ERROR pursues a new methodological framework that integrates a social-identity approach with recent advances in computational modeling to socially embed the emotional and cognitive elements of epistemic processing. I propose that the experienced “truthfulness” of…
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