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Description: Does the comparative format (explicitly comparative, implicitly comparative; further shortened to format: explicit, implicit) of claims about men and women and about younger and older people affect observers’ judgments of the claims’ truth and acceptability? Is the format effect moderated by the claims’ stereotype-consistency (stereotypical, counter-stereotypical) and valence (positive, negative)? Participants will judge the truth, acceptability, familiarity, stereotypicality, and positivity of claims about social groups. The claims will be either (a) superficially non-comparative, but imply an intergroup difference, and hence will be called implicit differences here, or (b) explicitly comparative and denoting a difference, and hence will be called explicit differences here. In addition, they will be either stereotypical or counter-stereotypical.