Nigeria, April 24 -- Famous psychologist, Tom Stafford, believes repetition makes a claim seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help one avoid falling for propaganda.

"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth," is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi politician, Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists, something like this known as the "illusion of truth" effect.

It was this sort of ancient propaganda tactics that people who do not mean well for the country resorted to when they claimed that the recent recovery of the naira against the dollar was because the Federal Government of Nigeria emptied the foreign reserves to defend the national currency. Since a lie that has been r...