Students' critical thinking and post-truth beliefs

Лозова, Ольга Миколаївна and Коркос, Ярослав Олександрович (2024) Students' critical thinking and post-truth beliefs Věda a perspektivy (1(32)). pp. 142-150. ISSN 2695-1584; 2695-1592

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Abstract

The post-truth era is a historical condition in which objective facts have less influence on the formation of public opinion than appeals to emotions and personal beliefs. Its manifestations include fake or false news, rumors, hoaxes, and political lies. Post-truth can be interpreted as an epistemological position that assumes skepticism of objective knowledge, relativization, and decentering of truth.To investigate how post-truth beliefs are interconnected with critical thinking, we developed a semantic differential, "Post-truth beliefs," based on key aspects of post-truth revealed during the theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific literature. The sample size is 200 students aged 18 to 23. The survey was conducted online using the Google Forms tool. Using the Spearman correlation test, we found a weak correlation between critical thinking and beliefs characteristic of the post-truth era. This relationship indicates the possible influence of post-truth beliefs on a person's ability to critically analyze and evaluate information. At the same time, a weak correlation may suggest that other factors also affect the level of critical thinking and its expression in the studied group. It was also found that the ability to abstract and operate with verbal concepts has a moderately direct relationship with critical thinking. This finding allows us to better define critical thinking as a scientific category and predict critical thinking with the help of separate thinking operations. We see the prospect of research expanding the target audience, clarifying the relationship between the cognitive sphere of the individual (especially intelligence) and critical thinking, and developing a training course to counter Russian narratives and propaganda, taking into account their specificity and similarity to post-truth phenomena

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	critical thinking; post-truth era; semantic differential; correlational analysis; postmodernism; information security
Subjects:	Статті у періодичних виданнях > Наукові рецензовані журнали (входять до інших баз, крім перерахованих та Google Academy, мають ISSN, DOI, індекс цитування)
Divisions:	Факультет психології, соціальної роботи та спеціальної освіти > Кафедра практичної психології
Depositing User:	Ярослав Олександрович Коркос
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2024 07:56
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2024 07:56
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50046

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