NOTE 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 ju...
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| Summary: | 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. ª 1999 Academic Press Research has shown that repeated exposure increases the perceived truth of state-ments such as ‘‘Greenland has about 50,000 inhabitants,’ ’ compared to statements that have not been presented before (e.g., Arkes, Hackett, & Boehm, 1989; Begg |
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