Much scholarly attention has been paid to the effects of misinformation on beliefs and attitudes, but rarely have studies investigated potential downstream effects of misinformation exposure on belief judgments involving subsequent factual statements. Drawing from work on anchoring-and-adjustment and defensive reasoning, this study examines how exposure to initial falsehoods that vary in terms of their plausibility shapes subsequent belief judgments. Across two survey experiments, we find that initial exposure to a less plausible statement decreases belief in subsequent statements, whether true or false. This order effect has implications for misinformation research, as studies examining audience responses to a single falsehood may fail to capture the full range of misinformation effects. Other implications are discussed in this article.

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泛滥区域：暴露于难以置信的陈述如何塑造随后的信念判断

学术界对错误信息对信念和态度的影响给予了很多关注，但很少有研究调查错误信息暴露对涉及后续事实陈述的信念判断的潜在下游影响。本研究利用锚定和调整和防御性推理的工作，研究了暴露于初始虚假信息的情况，这些虚假信息在其合理性方面各不相同，从而影响了随后的信念判断。在两个调查实验中，我们发现最初接触不太合理的陈述会降低对后续陈述的信念，无论是对还是错。这种顺序效应对错误信息研究有影响，因为研究受众对单一谎言的反应可能无法捕捉到错误信息的全部影响。本文讨论了其他影响。