Effects of processing fluency on comparative performance judgments

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-354

  Reber, Rolf ^a   Meier, Beat ^b   Ruch Monachon, Marie Antoinette ^b   Tiberini, Mara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cognitive task; Motor task; Performance; Processing fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33751164657     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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