When you lack the facts, how do you decide what is true and what is not? In the absence
of knowledge, we sometimes rely on non-probative information. For example, participants
judge concretely worded trivia items as more likely to be true than abstractly worded ones
(the linguistic truth effect; Hansen & Wänke, 2010). If minor language differences affect truth
judgements, ultimately they could influence more consequential political, legal, health, and
interpersonal choices. This Registered Report includes two high-powered replication attempts
of Experiment 1 from Hansen and Wänke (2010).
The preregistration for this study is the last component listed in this project.