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Accepting the information in a professor's lecture without considering the credibility of the information exemplifies a belief in what?

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Authority

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Individuals are more affected by the authority figure's perspective because they believe their ideas are more trustworthy, therefore they place higher importance on the authority figure's position and are more inclined to obey them. This is one of the social cognitive biases, often known as collective cognitive biases.

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