@article{ref1,
title="Truthiness and falsiness of trivia claims depend on judgmental contexts",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="2015",
author="Newman, Eryn J. and Garry, Maryanne and Unkelbach, Christian and Bernstein, Daniel M. and Lindsay, D. Stephen and Nash, Robert A.",
volume="41",
number="5",
pages="1337-1348",
abstract="When people rapidly judge the truth of claims presented with or without related but nonprobative photos, the photos tend to inflate the subjective truth of those claims-a &quot;truthiness&quot; effect (Newman et al., 2012). For example, people more often judged the claim &quot;Macadamia nuts are in the same evolutionary family as peaches&quot; to be true when the claim appeared with a photo of a bowl of macadamia nuts than when it appeared alone. We report several replications of that effect and 3 qualitatively new findings: (a) in a within-subjects design, when people judged claims paired with a mix of related, unrelated, or no photos, related photos produced truthiness but unrelated photos had no significant effect relative to no photos; (b) in a mixed design, when people judged claims paired with related (or unrelated) and no photos, related photos produced truthiness and unrelated photos produced &quot;falseness;&quot; and (c) in a fully between design, when people judged claims paired with either related, unrelated, or no photos, neither truthiness nor falsiness occurred. Our results suggest that photos influence people's judgments when a discrepancy arises in the expected ease of processing, and also support a mechanism in which-against a backdrop of an expected standard-related photos help people generate pseudoevidence to support claims. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="10.1037/xlm0000099",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000099"
}