The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 563-581

  Reber, Rolf ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84861784904     PISSN: 18785158     EISSN: 18785166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-010-0039-7     Document Type: Review

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