FLUENCY AND THE DETECTION OF MISLEADING QUESTIONS : LOW PROCESSING FLUENCY ATTENUATES THE MOSES ILLUSION

By Hyunjin Song, Norbert Schwarz. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns (2007, methodology): “To test this prediction, Song and Schwarz (2007) presented the Moses question and related ones in either an easy‐to‐read or diYcult‐to‐read print font.”
How foreign language shapes moral judgment (2015, methodology): “…in German d 3.72, [3.40, 4.00] AC C EP TE D M AN U SC R IP T Appendix B English Versions of the Moses Illusion and Everyday Social and Moral Norms Tasks (Study 3) Moses illusion task This task was developed by Erickson and Mattson (1981) (see also Reder & Kusbit, 1991, and Song & Schwarz, 2008).”
Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias. (2013, background): “Similarly, people aremore likely to give correct answers to “trick” questions that require reflection and the rejection of an intuitive response (e.g., Song & Schwarz, 2008; Alter, Oppenheimer, Epley, & Eyre, 2007, Study 1), and also evaluate consumer products based on systematic cues (such as…”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “…including contextualising, finding similarity, relating, considering, and deliberating should be well practised and thus chronically accessible (for somewhat different formulations, see Miller, 1984; Morris & Peng, 1994; for reviews see Oyserman, Coon et al., 2002; Oyserman & Sorensen, 2009).”
Easier is not always better: The moderating role of processing type on preference fluency (2010, background): “Specifically, feelings of ease are often interpreted as familiarity, and as a result of this perceived familiarity, fewer resources are allocated to processing the perceived-to-be-familiar stimulus (Song & Schwarz, 2008).”
The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency (2013, background): “In contrast, Song and Schwarz (2008) found that the error rate fell from 88% to 53% when they presented the question in a disfluent 12-point gray Brush Script font.”