It felt fluent, and i liked it: Subjective feeling of fluency rather than objective fluency determines liking

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 280-289

  Forster, Michael ^a   Leder, Helmut ^a   Ansorge, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ease of processing; Feeling of ease; Liking; Perceptual fluency; Subjective feeling of fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; READING; SPEECH; STIMULATION; VISIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPETITION PRIMING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881095794     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030115     Document Type: Article

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