Jeffrey Dean Doty Quotes & Sayings

Eagleman cited studies in which people were asked to evaluate different groups of sentences, some false, some true, for several weeks. They snuck in a few repeated sentences and after seeing these sentences a few times, the readers evaluated the false sentences as being true, and even when the sentences were shown to be false, a large number of the participants insisted they were true. This is known as the illusion-of-truth effect. It — Jeffrey Dean Doty