The analysis of intuition: Processing fluency and affect in judgements of semantic coherence

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1465-1503

  Topolinski, Sascha ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Intuition; Processing fluency; Semantic coherence judgements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 71049178607     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802420745     Document Type: Article

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