Delusion-prone individuals may be more likely to accept even delusion-irrelevant
implausible ideas because of their tendency to engage in less analytic and less actively
open-minded thinking. Consistent with this suggestion, two online studies with over 900
participants demonstrated that although delusion-prone individuals were no more likely to
believe true news headlines, they displayed an increased belief in “fake news” headlines,
which often feature implausible content. Mediation analyses suggest that analytic cognitive�…