A referential theory of the repetition-induced truth effect

Cognition

Volumn 160, Issue , 2017, Pages 110-126

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Rom, Sarah C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Fluency; Illusory truth effect; Referential theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REFERENTIAL THEORY; REPETITION INDUCED TRUTH EFFECT; RESPONSE TIME; THEORY; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009080909     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.016     Document Type: Article

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