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11:00 - 12:30
Parallel sessions 2
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11:00 - 12:30
Room: HSZ - N9
Chair/s:
Maren Mayer, Tobias Rebholz
Beyond the more traditional paradigm of advice taking, which is at the center of the symposium “New advances in advice taking research: Cognitive, social, and algorithmic perspectives”, this symposium highlights paradigms and cases in which dependency among individuals is less structured. In five talks, we present and discuss evidence from paradigms featuring dependent judgments and belief updating and highlight how others influence individuals’ judgments and beliefs in various ways.

The first contribution highlights how planned missing data designs can help us measure belief updating when no initial judgment is elicited. The second contribution draws on sequential collaboration, a method for aggregating estimates that does not include initial judgments, and examines whether contributors are influenced by social information about others. The third contribution investigates how framing and repetition of information systematically influence not only subjective truth judgments but also confidence, which in turn has been associated with reduced information seeking. In the fourth contribution, belief updating to scientific hypotheses is compared under different ordering and under either sequential or simultaneous presentation of evidence. Finally, the last contribution examines how trust in science shapes individuals’ belief updating for scientific evidence considering both source expertise and ambiguity of evidence.
Submission 321
Systematic Effects of Framing and Repetition on Subjective Confidence in Truth Judgments
SymposiumTalk-03
Presented by: Annika Stump
Annika Stump
University of Freiburg, Germany
People are constantly exposed to potentially deceptive information, whether in political campaigns, advertisements, or social media posts. While factors influencing truth judgments have been examined extensively – such as in the context of the illusory truth effect or negativity bias in judgments of truth – the mechanisms shaping people’s confidence in these judgments have received far less attention. Yet, understanding this metacognitive aspect is essential, as subjective confidence in judgments affects subsequent information seeking – across various levels of task difficulty and objective accuracy (e.g., Desender et al., 2018). Across several experiments comprising a total of 21,832 individual truth judgments, information repetition (N = 165) and framing (N = 166) were systematically manipulated while assessing subjective confidence in a naturalistic setting using Instagram-like posts. The results demonstrate that both repetition and framing substantially influence not only immediate truth judgments but also subjective confidence in these evaluations. In sum, these findings suggest that (dis-)information strategies employing such techniques not only shape short-term perceptions of truth but may also be particularly resistant to attempts at correction.