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Evaluating testimony from multiple witnesses: single cue satisficing or integration?
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Abstract
Testimony is a fundamental feature of human life: typically, wereceive testimonial evidence from others multiple times each day.Often, we have more than one source attesting to a particularclaim. This paper examines the way people integrate testimonialevidence from multiple sources. We find evidence that participantsdeviate substantially from the normative expectation. Instead,results seem indicative of the operation of simple, non-compensatory heuristics, at least some of the time.