On Writing Legibly: Processing Fluency Systematically Biases Evaluations of Handwritten Material

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-237

  Greifeneder, Rainer ^a,b   Alt, Alexander ^b   Bottenberg, Konstantin ^b   Seele, Tim ^b   Zelt, Sarah ^b   Wagener, Dietrich ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

education; evaluation; fluency; handwriting; legibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952943991     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610368434     Document Type: Article

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