The comprehension and validation of social information. Export

@article{citeulike:1179022, abstract = {The information one acquires in daily life concerns specific people and events about which one has prior knowledge. A theory of social cognition is proposed to account for the comprehension and verification of such information. The theory views comprehension as a process of constructing situation models of new information on the basis of previously formed models about its referents. The theory specifies the conditions in which statements about familiar people and events (e.g., "Jane Fonda does aerobics") are spontaneously recognized as true or false in the process of comprehending them. It further specifies the conditions in which these spontaneous validity judgments of a statement will influence perceptions of its implications when the statement is made in a social context. The comprehension of both single statements and multiple pieces of information in combination is considered.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820, USA. rwyer@s.psych.uiuc.edu}, author = {Wyer, R. S. and Radvansky, G. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {1179022}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10197364}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=10197364}, issn = {0033-295X}, journal = {Psychol Rev}, keywords = {belief, information}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {89--118}, posted-at = {2007-03-21 12:09:06}, priority = {0}, title = {The comprehension and validation of social information.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10197364}, volume = {106}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1179022 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1179022 N2 - The information one acquires in daily life concerns specific people and events about which one has prior knowledge. A theory of social cognition is proposed to account for the comprehension and verification of such information. The theory views comprehension as a process of constructing situation models of new information on the basis of previously formed models about its referents. The theory specifies the conditions in which statements about familiar people and events (e.g., "Jane Fonda does aerobics") are spontaneously recognized as true or false in the process of comprehending them. It further specifies the conditions in which these spontaneous validity judgments of a statement will influence perceptions of its implications when the statement is made in a social context. The comprehension of both single statements and multiple pieces of information in combination is considered. IS - 1 JF - Psychol Rev SN - 0033-295X AD - Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820, USA. rwyer@s.psych.uiuc.edu EP - 118 TI - The comprehension and validation of social information. VL - 106 SP - 89 KW - belief KW - information AU - Wyer, RS AU - Radvansky, GA PY - 1999/01// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10197364 ER -