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Article Dans Une Revue Memory and Cognition Année : 2017

Conflicting but close: Readers’ integration of information sources as a function of their disagreement

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According to the documents model framework (Britt, Perfetti, Sandak, & Rouet, 1999), readers’ detection of contradictions within texts increases their integration of source–content links (i.e., who says what). This study examines whether conflict may also strengthen the relationship between the respective sources. In two experiments, participants read brief news reports containing two critical statements attributed to different sources. In half of the reports, the statements were consistent with each other, whereas in the other half they were discrepant. Participants were tested for source memory and source integration in an immediate item-recognition task (Experiment 1) and a cued recall task (Experiments 1 and 2). In both experiments, discrepancies increased readers’ memory for sources. We found that discrepant sources enhanced retrieval of the other source compared to consistent sources (using a delayed recall measure; Experiments 1 and 2). However, discrepant sources failed to prime the other source as evidenced in an online recognition measure (Experiment 1). We argue that discrepancies promoted the construction of links between sources, but that integration did not take place during reading.
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hal-01954434 , version 1 (04-01-2024)

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Gaston Saux, Anne Britt, Ludovic Le Bigot, Nicolas Vibert, Debora Burin, et al.. Conflicting but close: Readers’ integration of information sources as a function of their disagreement. Memory and Cognition, 2017, 45 (1), pp.151-167. ⟨10.3758/s13421-016-0644-5⟩. ⟨hal-01954434⟩
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