title: Smooth Trajectories Travel Farther into the Future: Perceptual Fluency Effects on Prediction of Trend Continuation.
abstract: This research examines how processing fluency influences people's perceptions of whether a trend will continue into the future. Specifically, three studies hypothesized that people who read descriptions of increasing or decreasing trends in easy-to-read font would be more likely to predict that the trend would continue into the future, compared to people exposed to difficult-to-read font. Studies 1 and 2 establish this effect for an increasing trend, whereas Study 3 replicates the findings with a decreasing trend. Taken together, these results suggest processing fluency as a factor that affects assessment of future potential.
authors.affiliation: Yale University.
authors.forename: Julie Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Hyunjin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bargh