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- Title
Primacy Effect in Credibility Judgements: The Vulnerability of Verbal Cues to Biased Interpretations.
- Authors
Nahari, Galit; Ben‐Shakhar, Gershon
- Abstract
We explored the vulnerability of credibility judgements of written accounts (mediated by their richness in details) to primacy effect. Specifically, we examined whether the order by which two texts were presented affected their credibility judgements. In Experiment 1, participants read two life stories of the same narrator, one rich and the other poor in details, while their presentation order was manipulated. Results showed that participants tended to believe the narrator more when the rich story preceded the poor story than when the presentation order was reversed. In Experiment 2, the richness-order was manipulated within a single story, and its results revealed that, although participants read stories of equal length, they perceived a story that began in a rich manner as richer than a story that began in a poor manner. Together, results point to the vulnerability of the 'richness in detail' indicator to judgemental biases. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
PRIMACY effect (Learning); TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; JUDGMENT (Psychology); PROMPTS (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.2901