Source Credibility and Order Effects
- 1 December 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 29 (3_suppl) , 1303-1312
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1971.29.3f.1303
Abstract
288 undergraduates formed an opinion about a jury trial, and also formed impressions of the personalities of 10 hypothetical persons. A recency effect occurred for the jury trial, but order effects were inconsistent in the personality impressions. Source credibility also failed to have any consistent effect. Accordingly the study was replicated without intentional modification. Again, the recency effect in the jury trial was significant. This time the personality impression data yielded only recency trends, 4 significant.Keywords
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