Mere exposure effect: A consequence of direct and indirect fluency-preference links

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 323-341

  Willems, Sylvie ^a   Van der Linden, Martial ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Expectations; Familiarity; Fluency; Mere exposure effect; Picture quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; RECOGNITION; STIMULATION;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646579123     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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