Abstract：
The current study explored the influence of different levels of speaker coherence on rule following and speaker preference. In Experiment 1, rules provided by three different speakers were either 100% accurate, 0% accurate, or 50% accurate/inaccurate. Experiment 2 was similar to Experiment 1 except that the speaker\'s coherence was adjusted to 80% accurate, 20% accurate, and 50% accurate/inaccurate, respectively. Overall, participants tended to follow coherent speaker rules and avoid following incoherent speaker rules during training and testing phases. The results also indicated that following and not following rules provided by speakers may be generalizable to novel stimuli and maintained in the absence of differential reinforcement (i.e., in experimental test phases). Additionally, in a preference test, participants tended to prefer coherent over incoherent and partially coherent speakers. Furthermore, participants tended to prefer the relatively more incoherent speaker (i.e., 0% or 20% accurate) over the 50% accurate coherent speaker in both experiments. Finally, a comparison of the results of both experiments indicated that different levels of relational coherence affected the variability of rule-following and speaker preference behaviors. These findings are discussed in the context of the complexities that appear to be involved in rule-following behaviors and speaker preference.
摘要：
本研究探讨了不同程度的说话者连贯性对规则遵循和说话者偏好的影响。在实验1中，三个不同说话者提供的规则要么100%准确，0%准确,或50％准确/不准确。实验2类似于实验1，除了说话者的相干性被调整到80%的准确度，20%准确,50%准确/不准确，分别。总的来说,在训练和测试阶段,参与者倾向于遵循连贯的说话者规则,避免遵循不连贯的说话者规则.结果还表明，遵循和不遵循扬声器提供的规则可能可推广到新颖的刺激，并在没有差异增强的情况下保持（即，在实验测试阶段)。此外,在偏好测试中，参与者倾向于更喜欢连贯而不是不连贯和部分连贯的说话者。此外，参与者倾向于更喜欢相对更不连贯的说话者(即，0%或20%准确)在两个实验中都超过了50%准确的相干说话人。最后,两个实验结果的比较表明，不同水平的关系一致性影响规则遵循和说话者偏好行为的变异性。这些发现是在似乎涉及规则遵循行为和说话者偏好的复杂性的背景下进行讨论的。
