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” [1]. Would the pronounceability of others’ names also influence the truthiness of claims attributed to them? We replicated previous work b...

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Main Authors: Newman, Eryn J., Sanson, Mevagh, Miller, Emily K., Quigley-McBride, Adele, Foster, Jeffrey L., Bernstein, Daniel M., Garry, Maryanne
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935838/