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were of the truth or falsity of the statements, which concerned matters about which they were unlikely to know anything, for example, "The first air force base was launched in New Mexico" or "Basketball became an Olympic discipline in 1925". Specifically, the participants were asked to grade their belief in the truth of each statement on a scale of one to seven. While the participants' confidence in the truth of the non-repeated statements remained steady, their confidence in the truth of the repeated statements

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