Feeling good and feeling truth: The interactive effects of mood and processing fluency on truth judgments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 481-485

  Koch, Alex S ^a   Forgas, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mood; Processing fluency; Truth effect; Truth judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857142592     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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