“…These might be central for understanding what happens in situations that induce receivers to use negation. For example, negations might be generated as one counter-argues against an untrustworthy source of communication while listening to it or reading it (Eagly, Wood, & Chaiken, 1978;Papageorgis, 1968;Petty & Cacioppo, 1977;Zuwerink & Devine, 2000). More generally, receivers are often informed that some knowledge they have is ill-founded, so that after having learned ''X'' in the past, they should now process ''not-X'' (Fiedler, Walther, Armbruster, Fay, & Naumann, 1996;Hornby, 1974;Johnson, 1988;Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993;Johnson & Raye, 1981;Koehler, 1991;Loftus, 1979;Loftus & Palmer, 1974;Ross, Lepper, & Hubbard, 1975;Schul, 1993;Schul & Burnstein, 1985;Schul & Manzury, 1990;Schul & Mayo, 1999;Sellars, 1954;Strack & Bless, 1994).…”