Resistance to truth and susceptibility to falsehood threaten democracies around the globe. The present research assesses the magnitude, manifestations, and predictors of these phenomena, while addressing methodological concerns in past research. We conducted a preregistered study with a split-sample design (discovery sample N = 630, validation sample N = 1,100) of U.S. Census-matched online adults. Proponents and opponents of 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump were presented with fake and real political headlines ahead of the election. The political concordance of the headlines determined participants' belief in and intention to share news more than the truth of the headlines. This "concordance-over-truth" bias persisted across education levels, analytic reasoning ability, and partisan groups, with some evidence of a stronger effect among Trump supporters. Resistance to true news was stronger than susceptibility to fake news. The most robust predictors of the bias were participants' belief in the relative objectivity of their political side, extreme views about Trump, and the extent of their one-sided media consumption. Interestingly, participants stronger in analytic reasoning, measured with the Cognitive Reflection Task, were more accurate in discerning real from fake headlines when accurate conclusions aligned with their ideology. Finally, participants remembered fake headlines more than real ones regardless of the political concordance of the news story. Discussion explores why the concordance-over-truth bias observed in our study is more pronounced than previous research suggests, and examines its causes, consequences, and potential remedies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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当政治胜过真相：政治一致性与真实性是相信、分享和回忆新闻的决定因素。


对真理的抵制和对谎言的敏感性威胁着全球的民主国家。本研究评估了这些现象的幅度、表现和预测因素，同时解决了过去研究中的方法论问题。我们进行了一项预注册研究，采用美国人口普查匹配的在线成年人的分样本设计 （发现样本 N = 630，验证样本 N = 1,100）。2020 年美国总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普的支持者和反对者在选举前收到了虚假和真实的政治头条新闻。头条新闻的政治一致性决定了参与者对分享新闻的信念和意图，而不是标题的真相。这种“一致性高于真理”的偏见在教育水平、分析推理能力和党派团体中持续存在，一些证据表明在特朗普的支持者中影响更大。对真实新闻的抵抗力比对假新闻的易感性更强。对偏见最有力的预测因素是参与者对他们政治立场相对客观性的信念、对特朗普的极端看法以及他们片面的媒体消费程度。有趣的是，当准确的结论与他们的意识形态一致时，分析推理能力更强的参与者在辨别真实和虚假标题方面更准确。最后，无论新闻报道的政治一致性如何，参与者对假标题的记忆都比对假标题的记忆更重要。讨论探讨了为什么在我们的研究中观察到的一致性优于事实的偏差比以前的研究表明的更明显，并研究了其原因、后果和可能的补救措施。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。