Conservatives exhibit greater metacognitive inefficiency, study finds. conservatives exhibit weakness when faced with information that contradicts

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Conservatives exhibit greater metacognitive inefficiency, study finds | While both liberals and conservatives show some awareness of their ability to judge the accuracy of political information, conservatives exhibit weakness when faced with information that contradicts their political beliefs.​



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"People from both the political left and the political right were aware of how well they distinguished accurate political information from falsehood across all news. However, this metacognitive insight was considerably lower for Republicans and conservatives—than for Democrats and liberals,

Republicans’ and conservatives’ confidence was less likely to reflect the correctness of their truth judgments for true and false political statements that were at odds with their political views.
 
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