New in HCR: @markusappel.bsky.social et al. (2025) show that congeniality bias persisted regardless of fiction vs. non-fiction labeling, emerging for positive portrayals but not for negative ones, with non-fiction slightly preferred overall.
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Abstract. People prefer attitude-consistent information over attitude-inconsistent information (congeniality bias). Connecting theory on the processing of
