Is this a question? Not for long. The statement bias

@article{citeulike:337048, abstract = {Four experiments demonstrate a fundamental 'statement bias': questions are more often misremembered as statements than vice versa. The bias increases with increasing item comprehensibility (Experiment 1) and is related to depth of processing at encoding (Experiment 2). When sentences are simply comprehended, the bias is not affected by the truth of the statement underlying the sentence (Experiment 3). The statement bias generalizes to contexts in which people have to express consent with the content of the sentence (Experiment 4) but is somewhat reduced when they are not sure what the correct answer is. Our findings are consistent with the idea that during processing of a sentence the content of the sentence is represented similar to a statement.}, author = {Pandelaere, Mario and Dewitte, Siegfried }, citeulike-article-id = {337048}, doi = {10.1016/j.jesp.2005.08.004}, journal = {Journal of Experimental Social Psychology}, keywords = {bias, social-cognition, truth}, posted-at = {2005-09-30 16:04:42}, priority = {3}, title = {Is this a question? Not for long. The statement bias}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2005.08.004}, volume = {In Press, Corrected Proof} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:337048 L3 - citeulike-article-id:337048 TI - Is this a question? Not for long. The statement bias JF - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology VL - In Press, Corrected Proof N2 - Four experiments demonstrate a fundamental 'statement bias': questions are more often misremembered as statements than vice versa. The bias increases with increasing item comprehensibility (Experiment 1) and is related to depth of processing at encoding (Experiment 2). When sentences are simply comprehended, the bias is not affected by the truth of the statement underlying the sentence (Experiment 3). The statement bias generalizes to contexts in which people have to express consent with the content of the sentence (Experiment 4) but is somewhat reduced when they are not sure what the correct answer is. Our findings are consistent with the idea that during processing of a sentence the content of the sentence is represented similar to a statement. KW - bias KW - social-cognition KW - truth AU - Pandelaere, Mario AU - Dewitte, Siegfried UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2005.08.004 ER -