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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Information Processing

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  • Text comprehension involves validating information for consistency and truthfulness.
  • The credibility of the information source is a key factor in this validation process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how source credibility affects the validation of textual information.
  • To examine the interplay between source credibility and information plausibility during reading.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized explicit (ratings) and implicit (reading times) measures.
  • Participants evaluated short stories featuring high-credible versus low-credible sources presenting consistent or inconsistent information with world knowledge.

Main Results:

  • A credible source stating inconsistent information led to lower ratings of plausibility and source credibility.
  • Increased reading times on target and spillover sentences indicated modulated validation of implausible information from credible sources.

Conclusions:

  • Source credibility significantly modulates the validation of textual information.
  • A bidirectional relationship exists between perceived plausibility and source credibility during reading.