The Experience of Thinking : How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour

When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony's truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences of thinking" occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing, storing, and retrieving information, and they have been the defining element of a vibrant field of scientific inquiry during the last four decades. This book brings together the latest research on how such experiences of thinking influence cognition and behavior. The chapters present recent theoretical developments and describe the effects of these influences, as well as the practical implications of this research. The book includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field and provides a comprehensive survey of this expanding area. This integrative overview will be invaluable to researchers, teachers, students, and professionals in the field of social and cognitive psychology. Contents Note Continued: 10.almost Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ease-of-retrieval Effects / Michaela Wanke -- Pt. Iii Adaptive And Strategic Uses Of Fluency -- 11.critical Feeling: The Strategic Use Of Processing Fluency / Rolf Reber -- 12.the Ecological Validity Of Fluency / Ralph Hertwig -- 13.about Swift Defaults And Sophisticated Safety Nets: A Process Perspective On Fluency's Validity In Judgment / Sabine G. Scholl -- 14.fluency And Behavior Regulation: Adaptive And Maladaptive Consequences Of A Good Feeling / Klaus Fiedler -- Pt. Iv Final Assessment -- 15.thinking About Experiences Of Thinking: Fluency In Six Principles / Rainer Greifeneder. Edited By Christian Unkelbach And Rainer Greifeneder. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.