The literature on insight lists four main characteristics of this experience:(a) suddenness (the
experience is surprising and immediate), ease (the solution is processed without difficulty) …

How we perceive, attend to, or remember the stimuli in our environment depends on our
preferences for them. Here we argue that this dependence is reciprocal: pleasures and …

In my personal chapter contribution I present the basic dual process model that I believe to
be supported by my own empirical findings and the work of many of the contributors to this …

This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San
Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book …

People can intuitively detect whether a word triad has a common remote associate
(coherent) or does not have one (incoherent) before and independently of actually retrieving …

We propose and support a salience explanation of exposure effects. We suggest that
repeated exposure to stimuli influences evaluations by increasing salience, the relative …

From the 1950s onward, psychologists have generally assumed that people possess a
general need for cognitive consistency, whose frustration by an inconsistency elicits …

According to the processing-fluency explanation of aesthetics, more fluently processed
stimuli are preferred (R. Reber, N. Schwarz, & P. Winkielman, 2004, Processing fluency and …

Human reasoning is often biased by intuitive beliefs. A key question is whether the bias
results from a failure to detect that the intuitions conflict with logical considerations or from a …

Many important problems require consideration of multiple constraints, such as choosing a
job based on salary, location, and responsibilities. We used the Remote Associates Test to …