General idea
The main goal of this research will be to partially reproduce the design proposed by Newman & colleagues (2012; 2018; 2020) used to test the Truthiness effect which is testing how images influence perceptions of truth (cf Newman & Schwarz, 2024).
Example of Stimuli
Considered variables
Dependant variables
- Behavioral
- C scores (Newman et al., 2012)
- Proportion of "true" (Newman et al., 2018)
- Likert scale
- Physiological
- Eye-tracking
Biblio
- Newman, E. J., Garry, M., Unkelbach, C., Bernstein, D. M., Lindsay, D. S., & Nash, R. A. (2015). Truthiness and falsiness of trivia claims depend on judgmental contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(5), 1337. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xlm0000099
Independant variables
- Image/no image
- Type of image :
- Semantically related (vs semantically not related)
- Obviously AI generated (vs "real")
- Conspiracy Theory related (vs not related)
- Picture (vs drawing)
- Type of sentences relatde
- Simple / hard (Newmann, et al., 2012)