Fazio et al. (2015)

Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(5), 993-1002

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Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N. M., Payne, B. K., & Marsh, E. J. (2015). Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(5), 993-1002. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000098

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Standing Constraints Memory Processes

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The general failure is called knowledge neglect, not relying on stored knowledge that is available; standing constraints are a person- or thing-specific case, distinct from the general-knowledge cases usually studied, such as rating a repeated false statement as true despite knowing better