ABSTRACT People are increasingly worried about untruthfulness in news reporting. We distinguish between two types of untruthfulness: apparent untruthfulness (containing false information) and consequential untruthfulness (giving readers a wrong impression of the truth). Consequential untruthfulness can be caused by both the presence of false information and cherry‐picking (reporting only parts of the truth). Despite this, we find that people's perception of untruthfulness depends largely on apparent untruthfulness. Consequently, they treat news that cherry‐picks information less negatively (e.g., less likely to criticize it and more likely to share it with others) than they treat news that contains false information, when the former is more consequentially untruthful than the latter. We dub this phenomenon as cherry‐picking tolerance . We also find that prompting people to think about the consequence of the news report (i.e., the impressions people form after they read the news reports) will mitigate the cherry‐picking tolerance. This research draws attention to the widespread practice of cherry‐picking in news reporting and calls for a new look at what constitutes fake news.

Xilin Li

Christopher K. Hsee

Shu Wang

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is a multidisciplinary journal with a broad base of content and style. It publishes original empirical reports, critical review papers, theoretical analyses and methodological contributions. The Journal also features book, software and decision aiding technique reviews, abstracts of important articles published elsewhere and teaching suggestions.    The objective of the Journal is to present and stimulate behavioral research on decision making and to provide a forum for the evaluation of complementary, contrasting and conflicting perspectives. These perspectives include psychology, management science, sociology, political science and economics. Studies of behavioral decision making in naturalistic and applied settings are encouraged.

The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is a multidisciplinary journal with a wide range of content and styles. It publishes original empirical reports, critical review papers, theoretical analyses, and methodological contributions. The journal also features reviews of books, software, and decision-aiding techniques, abstracts of significant articles published elsewhere, and teaching suggestions. The objective of the journal is to present and stimulate behavioral research on decision making and to provide a forum for evaluating complementary, contrasting, and conflicting perspectives. These perspectives include psychology, management science, sociology, political science, and economics. Studies of behavioral decision making in naturalistic and applied settings are encouraged.

《Journal of Behavioral Decision Making》是一本多学科期刊，内容广泛，风格多样。期刊发表原创的实证研究报告、批判性综述论文、理论分析和方法论贡献。此外，期刊还包括书籍、软件和决策辅助技术的评审，重要文章的摘要，以及教学建议。期刊的目标是展示和激励关于决策制定的行为研究，并为评估互补、对立和冲突的观点提供一个论坛。这些观点涵盖心理学、管理科学、社会学、政治学和经济学。鼓励在自然和应用环境中进行的行为决策研究。

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Cherry‐Picking Tolerance About Untruthful News

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