Article 1: Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge
The study shows the effect that the internet has on cognition. The study shows how searching the internet for explanatory knowledge creates the illusion that one knows a lot or that they have recall for a lot of information when this is not the case. The study has the backing of nine experiments that show that searching the internet for information leads to high self-assessed knowledge. Individual believe their brains to be more active than they are as is depicted by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The study arose from the observation that people use transactive memory systems. People unconsciously divide ...