The virtues of opaque prose: How lay beliefs about fluency influence perceptions of quality

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 250-253

  Galak, Jeff ^a   Nelson, Leif D ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluency; Meta cognition; Reading; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649990536     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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