The Role of Source Credibility in the Validation of Information Depends on the Degree of (Im-)Plausibility

Authors :: Tobias Richter
Jean-François Rouet
Andreas Gabriel Wertgen
University of Würzburg = Universität Würzburg
Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CeRCA)
Université de Poitiers-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours-Université de Poitiers
Source :: Discourse Processes, Discourse Processes, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021, 58 (5-6), pp.513-528. ⟨10.1080/0163853X.2021.1881342⟩
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2021.
Abstract: This study examined the role of source credibility in the validation of factual information embedded in short narratives. In a self-paced reading experiment, we tested the assumption that the degre...

Subjects :: Linguistics and Language
Communication
Source credibility
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05 social sciences
050301 education
Degree (music)
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
Reading (process)
[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Narrative
Psychology
0503 education
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
media_common
Cognitive psychology

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