The influence of iconic material on the evaluation of an utterance

Mariusz Wszołek

Uniwersytet SWPS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-189X

Annette Siemes

Uniwersytet Wrocławski
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6129-0900

Michael Fleischer

Uniwersytet SWPS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3873-3491


Abstract

The article presents the results of research inspired by an experiment published in the Psychology Development journal in the article “Stable Truthiness Effect Across the Lifespan,” examining the truthiness effect based on photographic material. The subject of the presented study is how communication offers interact at the verbal and visual levels, and whether and to what extent the linkability of oral utterances differs from that of utterances using two channels of reception (verbal and visual). In the study, the respondents were asked to fill in a questionnaire containing 21 statements, with
a request to evaluate them in terms of true or false. The study was conducted in two
stages: first, presenting only the text of the statement, and the other time, the text with
a photo placed above it. The data obtained empirically show that the photo next to a given
statement does not affect the respondent’ rejection or acceptance of the information.


Keywords:

integrity, index communication, iconic sign, the influence of photography


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Published
2025-06-27

Cited by

Wszołek, M., Siemes, A. ., & Fleischer, M. (2025). The influence of iconic material on the evaluation of an utterance. Papers in Linguistics, 27(2), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.31648/pj.11314

Mariusz Wszołek 
Uniwersytet SWPS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-189X
Annette Siemes 
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6129-0900
Michael Fleischer 
Uniwersytet SWPS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3873-3491