Mix me a list: Context moderates the truth effect and the mere-exposure effect

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1117-1122

  Dechêne, Alice ^a   Stahl, Christoph ^b   Hansen, Jochim ^a   Wänke, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluency; List context; Mere exposure effect; Repetition; Truth effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049109238     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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