Rahul Bhui

Researcher at MIT Sloan studying decision-making, judgment, and behavioral economics with applications to misinformation and belief formation.

Sources in this wiki

• Orchinik, Rand & Bhui (2026) — The Not So Illusory Truth Effect: Source Credibility and the Effect of Repetition on Belief — Large preregistered experiments (N=4,947 and N=2,484) showing the illusory truth effect is substantially moderated by source credibility; develops formal Bayesian model of credibility-based inference where repetition provides evidence about source intent.
• Orchinik, Bhui & Rand (2025) — Replicability and generalizability of the repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news — Registered report replicating Effron & Raj with 100 false headlines finding repeated exposure reduces moral condemnation of sharing (β = −4.66, p < 0.001); investigates moderation by accuracy prompts (inconclusive) and confirms effect persists without explicit accuracy priming.
• Levari et al. (2024) — Blatantly false news increases belief in news that is merely implausible — Five preregistered experiments showing exposure to blatantly implausible headlines shifts people's plausibility baseline downward, increasing susceptibility to moderately false claims.
• Orchinink et al. (2026) — Adaptive Intuitions Shape Susceptibility to Misinformation — Experimental evidence that intuitive susceptibility to misinformation adapts to base rates of true vs. false content in information environments, challenging claims of immutable truth-bias.