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Chapters

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Dolores Albarracin (University of Pennsylvania)
Bypassing or Correcting Misinformation as a Function of Evaluation or Accuracy Goals: Efficacy and Fundamental Processes

Joel Cooper (Princeton University)
The Care and Feeding of False Beliefs: A cognitive dissonance analysis

William Crano (Claremont Graduate University)
The Birth, Tenacity, and Change of False Beliefs: Persuading the Unpersuadable

Karen Douglas (University of Kent, UK)
Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford)
Religion and Susceptibility to False Belief

Dave Dunning (University of Michigan)
False Belief Among Experts and the Cognitively Able

Klaus Fiedler (University of Heidelberg)
On the illusion of correct beliefs and the suspicion that correct beliefs may not exist

Joseph Paul Forgas (University of New South Wales, Australia)
How affective states promote false beliefs

Christopher French (Goldsmiths, University of London)
The Psychology of Paranormal Beliefs

Vinod Goel (York University, Canada)
False Beliefs and the Tethered Mind

Lee Jussim (Rutgers University)
Academic Misinformation

Joachim Krueger (Brown University)
The cognitive habits of false beliefs

Ilana Ritov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
False beliefs about rival groups: polarization and meta-perceptions

Keith Stanovich (University of Toronto, Canada) and Maggie Toplak (York University)
Reconceptualizing the Rationality of Conspiratorial Thinking

Robbie Sutton (University of Kent, UK)
The misandry myth: Psychological foundations and consequences of the false and widespread belief that feminists hate men

Jan Willem Van Prooijen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Pandemic Conspiracy Theories: Implications for Health and Polarization