{"title":"New insights on the illusory truth effect: societal reach, cognitive foundations, and mitigation strategies","authors":"Simone Mattavelli","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2026.2694208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2026.2694208","url":null,"abstract":"Decades of research show that repeated information is more believed than new information – an “illusory truth effect”. This article integrates past and recent research to examine its broader social consequences. Findings indicate that repetition strengthens stereotypical beliefs about social groups and reduces moral condemnation. Moreover, the effect extends beyond message content: communicators conveying repeated messages gain credibility. Turning to underlying mechanisms, the review shows that simply knowing that information has been repeated can increase its perceived truthfulness, suggesting repetition acts as a learned cue for truth. Nonetheless, people underestimate the influence of repetition on beliefs, particularly on themselves. Importantly, the article identifies a key boundary condition: changing the informational ecology from affirmation to interrogation substantially weakens the effect. Together, these findings position repetition as a powerful force in belief formation and clarify the origins and the limits of repetition-induced truth. Implications within and beyond the illusory truth literature are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148946854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normative climates and immigration: A societal psychology approach","authors":"Eva G. T. Green, Jessica Gale, Judit Kende","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2026.2638710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2026.2638710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147454553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leading from behind: How the symbolic self exerts its free will","authors":"Kennon M. Sheldon, Constantine Sedikides","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2577073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2577073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"472 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145382362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the ERSP special issue on “Reflections on social-psychological theorizing and the state of our field”","authors":"Martijn van Zomeren, Ayşe K. Üskül","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2516362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2516362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim, Colin Tredoux, Shelley McKeown, Clifford Stevenson, Jonny Huck
{"title":"‘Crossing the line’: A boundary transgression model of resistance to desegregation","authors":"John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim, Colin Tredoux, Shelley McKeown, Clifford Stevenson, Jonny Huck","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2550110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2550110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144919289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the analysis of the use of systematic terror from the theoretical perspective of social dominance: Concept, limits and theoretical proposition","authors":"Gustave Adolphe Messanga, Willy Taffo Nemboué","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2525003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2525003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-44"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system and bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them","authors":"Michael Quayle","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2514433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2514433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"102 1","pages":"1-66"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144269402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arie W. Kruglanski, Molly Ellenberg, Ewa Szumowska, Piotr Dragon, Antonio Pierro, Federico Contu, Erica Molinario, Pedro R. Altungy, Luis C. Jaume, Maxim Laurijssen, Mo Wang
{"title":"Facing the unknown with hope or fear: On the affective reactions to outcome uncertainty","authors":"Arie W. Kruglanski, Molly Ellenberg, Ewa Szumowska, Piotr Dragon, Antonio Pierro, Federico Contu, Erica Molinario, Pedro R. Altungy, Luis C. Jaume, Maxim Laurijssen, Mo Wang","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2514413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2514413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"150 1","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A threats, support and hidden costs framework of coping with challenges to social identity","authors":"Colette van Laar, Jenny Veldman, Aster Van Rossum","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2509457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2509457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immo Fritsche, Johannes Lautenbacher, Torsten Masson
{"title":"Let’s take back control: Disentangling and integrating group-based and certainty-based social responses to threatened personal control","authors":"Immo Fritsche, Johannes Lautenbacher, Torsten Masson","doi":"10.1080/10463283.2025.2509465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2509465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47582,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Social Psychology","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}