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Honest Or Deceitful?: A Study Of Persons' Mental Models For Judging Veracity, John S. Seiter
Honest Or Deceitful?: A Study Of Persons' Mental Models For Judging Veracity, John S. Seiter
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
This study focused on understanding the detailed and dynamic mental models that people develop for judging veracity. It was hypothesized that individual differences in such mental models, assessed by using Thagard's (1989) ECHO computer simulation program, would predict participants' attributions and confidence in making attributions. After watching videotapes of targets, 120 participants rated targets' veracity and their own confidence in making attributions. Half of these participants also provided “on-line” information that, in turn, was entered into ECHO. The two groups did not differ in their judgments of veracity, but the on-line group was significantly more confident. Results from ECHO and …