Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly

By Daniel M. Oppenheimer. 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The fluency principle: Why foreign accent strength negatively biases language attitudes (2017, background): “…have demonstrated that high fluency promotes favorable judgments across a wide range of domains; for instance, high fluency has been shown to lead to higher ratings of truth (Reber & Schwarz, 1999), intelligence (Oppenheimer, 2006), and liking (Reber, Winkielman, & Schwarz, 1998), among others.”
Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. (2007, neutral): “Participants were randomly assigned to complete either the fluent or the disfluent version of the CRT. Previous research has shown that similar font manipulations effectively influence fluency (e.g., Oppenheimer, 2006; Werth & Strack, 2003).”
The Debunking Handbook 2020 (2020, neutral): “Avoid scientific jargon or complex, technical language 94 .”
Easy does it: The role of fluency in cue weighting (2007, background): “In this experiment, we investigated whether linguistic fluency might also affect cue weighting (for examples of linguistic fluency manipulations, see Alter & Oppenheimer, 2006; Whittlesea & Leboe, 2000).”
Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability (2012, neutral): “Oppenheimer (2009). “Uniting the Tribes of Fluency to Form a Metacognitive Nation.”
It Pays to Write Well (2017, neutral): “In addition, the literature provides evidence that low readability causes subjects to evaluate a source less favorably without their being aware of it (e.g., McGlone and Tofighbakhsh, 2000; Oppenheimer, 2006; Alter and Oppenheimer, 2008).”
Metacognitive Experiences in Consumer Judgment and Decision Making (2004, background): “Oppenheimer, D. (2004). Spontaneous discounting of availability in fre-”
The influences of restaurant menu font style, background color, and physical weight on consumers’ perceptions (2016, background): “Not surprisingly, several ont studies have found that difficult to read font styles are not welleceived by individuals (Oppenheimer, 2006; Song and Schwarz, 008; Thompson and Ince, 2013).”