Creeping Objectivity: Prior Exposure Makes People More Likely to Believe Claims Are Factual Statements Rather Than Opinions

Whether people believe that claims are objective (verifiably accurate or inaccurate) or subjective (non-verifiable matters of opinion) has important consequences for judgment and conflict. In five preregistered experiments (N=3,412), we find that prior exposure to claims makes people more likely to believe that claims are objective rather than subjective.



Citation:

Daniel J. Mirny and Stephen A. Spiller (2021) ,"Creeping Objectivity: Prior Exposure Makes People More Likely to Believe Claims Are Factual Statements Rather Than Opinions", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 487-487.

Authors

Daniel J. Mirny, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephen A. Spiller, UCLA Anderson School of Management



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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