Study: Millennials Distrustful of Information on Twitter
Because false information encountered after an event can lead to memory distortion, social media can be particularly harmful for autobiographical memory.
A recent study appearing in the Springer research journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review found that millennials don’t trust information they read in Twitter feeds.
The study is the first to examine the effects of social media on memory distortion. Because false information encountered after an event can lead to memory distortion, social media can be particularly harmful for autobiographical memory.
False memory is formed when people integrate bogus information into their minds. The researchers wanted to test the effects of Twitter on the formation of false memories.
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