A general model of fluency effects in judgment and decision making

The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 11-32

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Greifeneder, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84940225065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203078938     Document Type: Chapter

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