Fluency and positivity as possible causes of the truth effect

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 594-602

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Bayer, Myriam ^a   Alves, Hans ^b   Koch, Alex ^c   Stahl, Christoph ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluative judgments; Processing fluency; Subjective experiences; Truth effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE;

COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; TRUST;

EID: 80051670480     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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