Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Judgments of Truth

Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Judgments of Truth

Statements of the form “Osorno is in Chile” were presented in colors that made them easy or difficult to read against a white background and participants judged the truth of the statement. Moderately visible statements were judged as true at chance level, whereas highly visible statements were judge...

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Veröffentlicht in:Consciousness and cognition 1999-09, Vol.8 (3), p.338-342
Hauptverfasser: Reber, Rolf, Schwarz, Norbert
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Biological and medical sciences
Color Perception - physiology
Fixation, Ocular - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Judgment
Perception
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Semantics
Vision
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Zusammenfassung:Statements of the form “Osorno is in Chile” were presented in colors that made them easy or difficult to read against a white background and participants judged the truth of the statement. Moderately visible statements were judged as true at chance level, whereas highly visible statements were judged as true significantly above chance level. We conclude that perceptual fluency affects judgments of truth.
ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI:10.1006/ccog.1999.0386