APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
A Referential Theory of the Truth Effect
- 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