Belief in the Claim of an Argument Increases Perceived Argument Soundness

Autor/inn/en	Wolfe, Michael B.; Kurby, Christopher A.
Titel	Belief in the Claim of an Argument Increases Perceived Argument Soundness
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 54 (2017) 8, S.599-617 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2015.1137446
Schlagwörter	Persuasive Discourse; Beliefs; Validity; Abstract Reasoning; Bias; Predictor Variables; Value Judgment; Discrimination Learning; College Students; Sentences; Multiple Choice Tests; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Belief; Glaube; Gültigkeit; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Prädiktor; Werturteil; Lernen; Lernprozess; Collegestudent; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Multiple choice examinations; Multiple-choice tests, Multiple-choice examinations; Multiple-Choice-Verfahren; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	We examined subjects' ability to judge the soundness of informal arguments. The argument claims matched or did not match subject beliefs. In all experiments subjects indicated beliefs about spanking and television violence in a prescreening. Subjects read one-sentence arguments consisting of a claim followed by a reason and then judged the soundness of the argument. Signal detection theory analyses were used to examine discrimination performance and response bias. In Experiment 1 discrimination was not predicted by beliefs, but subjects were biased in favor of rejecting arguments as unsound when the claim was inconsistent with their beliefs compared with when it was consistent. In Experiments 2 and 3 we replicated these effects and examined neutral subjects and reasoning ability as factors. The results suggest that belief or disbelief in an argument claim biases students' judgments of the argument's soundness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01