This paper has a rather audacious purpose: to present a comprehensive theory explaining,
and further providing hypotheses for the empirical study of, the multiple ways by which …

Abstract Thinking is accompanied by metacognitive experiences of ease or difficulty. People
draw on these experiences as a source of information that can complement or challenge the …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

While there is an ample amount of consumer behavior research that recruits processing
fluency as an explanatory construct, the question how to best measure the fluency …

In this article, we develop an account of how aesthetic preferences can be formed as a result
of two hierarchical, fluency-based processes. Our model suggests that processing …

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental …

Parallelistic features of poetic and rhetorical language use comprise a great variety of
linguistically optional patterns of phonological, prosodic, syntactic, and semantic recurrence …

In a series of experiments Marc Jeannerod revealed that we have very little awareness of
the details and causes of our actions. We are, however, vividly aware of being in control of …

Despite the ubiquitous use of taste-focused and health-focused advertising messages, the
existing advertising literature offers little guidance on how the persuasiveness of such …

Vaccine hesitancy has been on the rise throughout the past two decades, especially in high
income countries where existing pro-vaccination public health communication strategies …