People with easier to pronounce names promote truthiness of claims.
When people make judgments about the truth of a claim, related but nonprobative information rapidly leads them to believe the claim--an effect called "truthiness". Would the pronounceability of others' names also influence the truthiness of claims attributed to them? We replicated pre...
Main Authors: | Eryn J Newman, Mevagh Sanson, Emily K Miller, Adele Quigley-McBride, Jeffrey L Foster, Daniel M Bernstein, Maryanne Garry |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3935838?pdf=render |
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