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 …

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) …

The positive-negative axis of emotional valence has long been recognized as fundamental
to adaptive behavior, but its origin and underlying function have largely eluded formal …

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 …

Un apasionante recorrido por el funcionamiento de la mente de la mano del padre de la
psicología conductista y premio Nobel de Economía en 2002: Daniel Kahneman. En Pensar …

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 …

In interpersonal encounters, individuals often exhibit changes in their own facial expressions
in response to emotional expressions of another person. Such changes are often called …

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 …

“Breaking: Tens of thousands of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse”. In late
2016, an estimated six million people on social media and other news websites were …

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