Fig 1.
Neutral statements referred to generic behaviours of the protagonist John. The target statement was presented at trial 13; in the negative retraction and neutral conditions, it was retracted at trial 19. The coherence-building statement was presented at trial 15.
Fig 2.
Mean likability scores across conditions in Experiment 1.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.
Fig 3.
Mean inference scores across conditions in Experiment 1.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.
Fig 4.
Mean likability scores across conditions in Experiment 2.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.
Fig 5.
Mean inference scores across conditions in Experiment 2.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.
Fig 6.
Mean likability scores across conditions in Experiment 3.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.
Fig 7.
Mean inference scores across conditions in Experiment 3.
Bars indicate condition means; error bars are 95% bootstrapped confidence intervals (1000 resamples); data points indicate participant mean scores; violins provide distributional information.