Sourcing Through the Grapevine: Comprehending Multiple Perspectives in Texts Reflecting Gossip

EasyChair Preprint 6178

Abstract

The current experiments investigate memory for source information when reading multiple texts reflecting gossip. Results demonstrate that discrepancies promote memory for links between sources and their content, but not links between the sources themselves, relative to when texts are consistent. Discussion focuses on the potential for cognitive conflict brought about by discrepant information in texts to aide in constructing more complete intertext models, which could likely result in more accurate mental representations of the texts.

Keyphrases: Mental Representations of Texts, Source Information, discrepancies

@booklet{EasyChair:6178,
  author    = {Erica Kessler and Jason Braasch},
  title     = {Sourcing Through the Grapevine: Comprehending Multiple Perspectives in Texts Reflecting Gossip},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6178},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}