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Publication details [#64871]

Jucks, Regina and Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus. 2018. Conflicting Evidence or Conflicting Opinions? Two-Sided Expert Discussions Contribute to Experts’ Trustworthiness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37 (2) : 203–223.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | evaluation | information processing | opinion | reader

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores how the manner pro and contra information is divided between two experts in a written discourse affect readers’ assessments. Readers evaluated experts who communicated more consensus-oriented by taking a two-sided stance to be more reliable.