Hearing a statement now and believing the opposite later - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer

Garcia-Marques, Teresa ORCID: 0000-0002-6233-0799, Silva, Rita R. ORCID: 0000-0003-3370-295X, Reber, Rolf ORCID: 0000-0002-6669-7109 and Unkelbach, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-3793-6246 (2015). Hearing a statement now and believing the opposite later. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol., 56. S. 126 - 130. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0465

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DOI:10.1016/j.jesp.2014.09.015

Abstract

Existing findings on the truth effect could be explained by recollection of the statements presented in the exposure phase. In order to examine a pure fluency account of this effect, we tested a unique prediction that could not be derived from recollection of a statement In one experiment, participants judged the truth of a statement that had the same surface appearance as a statement presented earlier but contradicted it, for example crocodiles sleep with their eyes open one week after having heard crocodiles sleep with their eyes closed. We predicted and found that participants judged contradictory statements as being more false than new statements after a delay of only a few minutes, but judged them as more likely to be true after one week. In contrast to earlier findings, this result cannot be explained by accounts relying on recollection of the previously presented statements. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Garcia-Marques, Teresa	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-6233-0799	UNSPECIFIED
Silva, Rita R.	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-295X	UNSPECIFIED
Reber, Rolf	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-6669-7109	UNSPECIFIED
Unkelbach, Christian	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-6246	UNSPECIFIED