One of the first studies from my PhD is out now in JEP:G 🥳We tested whether people can infer the truth from teachers who were either helpful, misleading, or randomly sampling. With Keith Ransom and @perfors.net
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Words that had higher utility were more familiar, frequent, early-acquired, and central in the semantic network (all somewhat expected), more abstract, and longer (somewhat unexpected)
