Why Is It so Hard to Teach Critical Evaluation of Sources? the Potential Impact of Emotional Salience on Critical Consumption of Media.

Adolescents are relatively aware that organizations are motivated to persuade/sell in internet postings, yet do not expect that personal acquaintances similarly curate internet content. Undergraduates parallel this dichotomy in reasoning, identifying peer-review as a reliable authority while simultaneously rejecting experimental findings, suggesting critical thinking alters under emotionally salient contexts.