title: Conflicting but close: Readers' integration of information sources as a function of their disagreement.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. gsaux@psi.uba.ar.
authors.forename: Gaston
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8482-6939
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saux
authors.affiliation: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Britt
authors.affiliation: Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Le Bigot
authors.affiliation: CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CERCA UMR7295), Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vibert
authors.affiliation: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Debora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burin
authors.affiliation: CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CERCA UMR7295), Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Rouet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Discrepancies; Recall; Recognition; Sources; Text