Fig. 4.

Accuracy on blap task partially enhances sense of similarity. (a) Politically similar sources were rated as more similar by participants. Interestingly the politically like-minded source that was also more accurate on blaps was rated as more similar than the politically like-minded source that was random on blaps. This suggests that accuracy on blap task partially affected perceived similarity. (b) The reverse mediation to that tested in Fig. 3 – by which perceived similarity mediates the effect between source accuracy and information seeking behaviour – was not significant. Error bars represent SEM. ^**p < .01, ^***p < .001.