APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

A Referential Theory of the Truth Effect

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Social

  • Sarah Rom
    University of Cologne
  • Christian Unkelbach
    University of Cologne

Abstract

People judge repeated statements more likely to be true compared to new statements, a phenomenon known as the truth effect. We propose a referential theory to explain this effect. Six experiments test the core assumptions of this theory and demonstrate why the proposed processes should lead to valid beliefs.

Social Cognition

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