"We found that people suspicious of the motivations underlying the war successfully discounted misinformation, whereas those who thought the war was fought to destroy WMDs tended not to discount the original discredited version of events," the researchers stated. "Because they were less suspicious overall, participants in America showed less sensitivity to the correction of misinformation than those in Australia and Germany who were sensitive to corrections of misinformation."
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