Metacognitive experiences as information: Processing fluency in consumer judgment and decision making

N Schwarz, M Jalbert, T Noah… - Consumer Psychology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Truth by repetition: Explanations and implications

C Unkelbach, A Koch, RR Silva… - Current directions in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
People believe repeated information more than novel information; they show a repetition-
induced truth effect. In a world of “alternative facts,”“fake news,” and strategic information …

Only half of what i'll tell you is true: Expecting to encounter falsehoods reduces illusory truth

M Jalbert, E Newman, N Schwarz - Journal of Applied Research in Memory …, 2020 - Elsevier
Information is judged as more true when it has been seen or heard repeatedly than when it
is new. This illusory truth effect has important consequences in the real world, where we are …

Truthiness, the illusory truth effect, and the role of need for cognition

EJ Newman, MC Jalbert, N Schwarz, DP Ly - Consciousness and Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Ease of processing—cognitive fluency—is a central input in assessments of truth, but little is
known about individual differences in susceptibility to fluency-based biases in truth …

The effect of repetition on the perceived truth of tobacco-related health misinformation among US adults

JC Morgan, JN Cappella - Journal of Health Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
As concerns about the effects of health misinformation rise, understanding why misbeliefs
are accepted is increasingly important. People believe repeated statements more than novel …

Truth is in the mind, but beauty is in the eye: Fluency effects are moderated by a match between fluency source and judgment dimension.

T Vogel, RR Silva, A Thomas… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The eminent role of processing fluency in judgment and decision-making is undisputed. Not
only is fluency affected by sources as diverse as stimulus repetition or visual clarity, but it …

The effects of repetition spacing on the illusory truth effect

J Udry, SK White, SJ Barber - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The illusory truth effect refers to the fact that repetition increases perceptions of truth. In these
experiments, we examined whether the magnitude of the illusory truth effect varies based …

Assessing reading comprehension with narrative and expository texts: Dimensionality and relationship with fluency, vocabulary and memory

S Santos, I Cadime, FL Viana… - Scandinavian …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Reading comprehension assessment should rely on valid instruments that enable adequate
conclusions to be taken regarding students' reading comprehension performance. In this …

A meta-analytical review of the familiarity temporal effect: Testing assumptions of the attentional and the fluency-attributional accounts.

AC Fernandes, T Garcia-Marques - Psychological Bulletin, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The current meta-analysis accumulates empirical findings for the familiarity temporal effect
(FTE) in duration judgments (the duration of more familiar stimuli is judged to be longer than …

Is it all about the feeling? Affective and (meta-) cognitive mechanisms underlying the truth effect

A Stump, J Rummel, A Voss - Psychological Research, 2022 - Springer
People are more likely to judge repeatedly perceived statements as true. A decisive
explanation for this so-called truth effect is that the repeated information can be processed …