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The study investigates how cognitive reflection interacts with types of news to affect susceptibility to political misinformation.

Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news

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The study investigates how cognitive reflection interacts with types of news to affect susceptibility to political misinformation.
Conducted an integrative data analysis combining 18 studies on political misinformation with soft and hard news ratings.
Performed two experiments in the United States and Greece with 666 participants exposed to different types of news.
Analyzed the relationship between cognitive reflection, truth discernment, and political bias across datasets.
Participants displaying cognitive reflection showed stronger political bias when evaluating hard news.
Cognitive reflection improved truth discernment for soft news in the integrative data analysis, but results were inconsistent in experiments.
Findings indicate that cognitive reflection can exacerbate bias in politically charged information.

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Integrative data analysis examines cognitive reflection's role in truth discernment and bias in news types, suggesting nuanced implications.

Lois et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Integrative data analysis examines cognitive reflection's role in truth discernment and bias in news types, suggesting nuanced implications.