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Believability of evidence matters for correcting social impressions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019-05, Vol.116 (20), p.9802-9807 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright National Academy of Sciences May 14, 2019 ;2019 ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903222116 ;PMID: 31036663

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  • Title:
    Believability of evidence matters for correcting social impressions
  • Author: Cone, Jeremy ; Flaharty, Kathryn ; Ferguson, Melissa J.
  • Subjects: Cognition ; Communication ; Credibility ; Humans ; Social Perception ; Social Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019-05, Vol.116 (20), p.9802-9807
  • Description: To what extent are we beholden to the information we encounter about others? Are there aspects of cognition that are unduly influenced by gossip or outright disinformation, even when we deem it unlikely to be true? Research has shown that implicit impressions of others are often insensitive to the truth value of the evidence. We examined whether the believability of new, contradictory information about others influenced whether people corrected their implicit and explicit impressions. Contrary to previous work, we found that across seven studies, the perceived believability of new evidence predicted whether people corrected their implicit impressions. Subjective assessments of truth value also uniquely predicted correction beyond other properties of information such as diagnosticity/extremity. This evidence shows that the degree to which someone thinks new information is true influences whether it impacts implicit impressions.
  • Publisher: United States: National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
    EISSN: 1091-6490
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903222116
    PMID: 31036663
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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