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Communication accuracy as a function of

Communication accuracy as a function of information about the communicator

✍ J. Richard Eiser; Reena Bhavnani 📂 Article 📅 1973 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 491 KB

## Abstract The accuracy with which Ss could identify the national governments referred to by a set of semantic‐differential profiles was found to be significantly related to whether they were given true, false, or unspecific information concerning the source of the profiles. Contrary to hypothesis