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Publication details [#61604]
Kammerer, Yvonne, Eva Kalbfell and Peter Gerjets. 2016. Is This Information Source Commercially Biased? How Contradictions Between Web Pages Stimulate the Consideration of Source Information. Discourse Processes 53 (5,6) : 430–456.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Students faced with inconsistent (positive or negative) webpage information, assess the commercially partisan page as less reliable and persuasive. These results are debated in the light of the contradiction-induced source understanding hypothesis.