ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
The Role of Plausibility in Acceptance of Novel Propositions: A Challenge to Gilbert’s “Spinozan” Theory of Belief Formation
- Marion Vorms
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Adam Harris
University College London - Ulrike Hahn
Birkbeck College London
Abstract
We replicate Gilbert et al.’s 1991 ‘Hopi Language Experiment’, while introducing a plausibility variable, and using propositions that bear about the real world. We found that, while subjects mistake more false propositions as true than the opposite when those are plausible, the effect swaps for implausible statements.
Judgment and Decision Making
