Further boundary conditions for the effects of perceptual disfluency on judgments of learning

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-56

  Magreehan, Debbie A ^a   Serra, Michael J ^a   Schwartz, Neil H ^b   Narciss, Susanne ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Font size effects; Judgments of learning (JOLs); Perceptual fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945577903     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-015-9147-1     Document Type: Article

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