Self-generated cognitive fluency: consequences on evaluative judgments

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dc.abstract.enPeople can support abstract reasoning by using mental models with spatial simulations. Such models are employed when people represent elements in terms of ordered dimensions (e.g. who is oldest, Tom, Dick, or Harry). We test and find that the process of forming and using such mental models can influence the liking of its elements (e.g. Tom, Dick, or Harry). The presumed internal structure of such models (linear-transitive array of elements), generates variations in processing ease (fluency) when using the model in working memory (see the Symbolic Distance Effect, SDE). Specifically, processing of pairs where elements have larger distances along the order should be easier compared to pairs with smaller distances. Elements from easier pairs should be liked more than elements from difficult pairs (fluency being hedonically positive). Experiment 1 shows that unfamiliar ideographs are liked more when at wider distances and therefore easier to process. Experiment 2 replicates this effect with non-words. Experiment 3 rules out a non-spatial explanation of the effect while Experiments 4 offers a high-powered replication. Experiment 5 shows that the spatial effect spontaneously emerges after learning, even without a task that explicitly focuses on fluency. Experiment 6 employed a shorter array, but yielded no significant results.
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorvon Hecker, Ulrich
dc.contributor.authorHanel, Paul H. P.
dc.contributor.authorWinkielman, Piotr
dc.date.access2023-01-27
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-17T10:02:00Z
dc.date.available2024-01-17T10:02:00Z
dc.date.created2022-12-19
dc.date.issued2023-01-27
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.issue2
dc.description.physical254-270
dc.description.versionfinal_author
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02699931.2022.2161482?
dc.identifier.eissn1464-0600
dc.identifier.issn0269-9931
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/323
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2022.2161482
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.explanationdostęp zamknięty
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.enSymbolic distance effect (SDE)
dc.subject.enmagnitude processing
dc.subject.enlinear orders
dc.subject.enspatial processing
dc.subject.encognitive fluency
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleSelf-generated cognitive fluency: consequences on evaluative judgments
dc.title.journalCognition and Emotion
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle