title: The differential effects of fluency due to repetition and fluency due to color contrast on judgments of truth.
abstract: Two experiments contrast the effects of fluency due to repetition and fluency due to color contrast on judgments of truth, after participants learn to associate high levels of fluency with falseness (i.e., a reversal of the fluency-truth link). Experiment 1 shows that the interpretation of fluency as a sign of truth is harder to reverse when learning is promoted with repetition rather than with perceptual fluency. Experiment 2 shows that when color contrast and repetition are manipulated orthogonally, the reversal of the truth effect learned with color contrast does not generalize to repetition. These results suggest specificities in the processing experiences generated by different sources of fluency, and that their influences can be separated in contexts that allow the contrast of their distinctive features. We interpret and discuss these results in light of the research addressing the convergence vs. dissociation of the effects elicited by different fluency sources.
authors.affiliation: William James Center for Research, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal. rsilva@ispa.pt.|Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauß-Straße 2, 50931, Cologne, Germany. rsilva@ispa.pt.
authors.forename: Rita R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: William James Center for Research, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Garcia-Marques
authors.affiliation: William James Center for Research, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal.
authors.forename: Joana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mello
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult