Code for: Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Nahon, Lea Sara
Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah
Reber, Rolf
Greifeneder, Rainer
Abstract / Description
Code for: Nahon, L. S., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Reber, R., & Greifeneder, R. (2021). Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency. Cognition, 215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104819
Information is more likely believed to be true when it feels easy rather than difficult to process. An ecological learning explanation for this fluency-truth effect implicitly or explicitly presumes that truth and fluency are positively associated. Specifically, true information may be easier to process than false information and individuals may reverse this link in their truth judgments. The current research investigates the important but so far untested precondition of the learning explanation for the fluency-truth effect. In particular, five experiments (total N = 712) test whether participants experience information known to be true as easier to process than information known to be false. Participants in Experiment 1a judged true statements easier to read than false statements. Experiment 1b was a preregistered direct replication with a large sample and again found increased legibility for true statements—importantly, however, this was not the case for statements for which the truth status was unknown. Experiment 1b thereby shows that it is not the actual truth or falsehood of information but the believed truth or falsehood that is associated with processing fluency. In Experiment 2, true calculations were rated as easier to read than false calculations. Participants in Experiment 3 judged it easier to listen to calculations generally known to be true than to calculations generally known to be false. Experiment 4 shows an effect of truth on processing fluency independent of statement familiarity. Discussion centers on the current explanation for the fluency-truth effect and the validity of processing fluency as a cue in truth judgments.
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Processing fluency Truth effectPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2021-06-09
Publisher
PsychArchives
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Citation
Nahon, L. S., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Reber, R., & Greifeneder, R. (2021). Code for: Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4895
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Nahon_et_al_Truth feels easy_SUPPL_R code_Experiment_1a.txtText - 23.26KBMD5: 4004310d2707891141fab48e8b2d9b1cDescription: R code Experiment 1a
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Nahon_et_al_Truth feels easy_SUPPL_R code_Experiment_1b.txtText - 23.28KBMD5: 0a01c399b23d795b7d723b7e377baa48Description: R code Experiment 1b
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Nahon_et_al_Truth feels easy_SUPPL_R code_Experiment_2.txtText - 24.66KBMD5: e59d1270ef56d75abcbc90566271c320Description: R code Experiment 2
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Nahon_et_al_Truth feels easy_SUPPL_R code_Experiment_3.txtText - 28.16KBMD5: 24a5c2f4a7bdb80646b0a3aa22566841Description: R code Experiment 3
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Nahon_et_al_Truth feels easy_SUPPL_R code_Experiment_4.txtText - 57.82KBMD5: de10180f365c3ef951ea34556d9f3652Description: R code Experiment 4
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22021-06-09Code for Experiment 1b has been added. Code for internal meta-analysis has been removed.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Nahon, Lea Sara
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Reber, Rolf
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Greifeneder, Rainer
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PsychArchives acquisition timestamp2021-06-09T14:07:49Z
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Made available on2020-12-15T08:58:40Z
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Made available on2021-06-09T14:07:49Z
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Date of first publication2021-06-09
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Abstract / DescriptionCode for: Nahon, L. S., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Reber, R., & Greifeneder, R. (2021). Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency. Cognition, 215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104819en
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Abstract / DescriptionInformation is more likely believed to be true when it feels easy rather than difficult to process. An ecological learning explanation for this fluency-truth effect implicitly or explicitly presumes that truth and fluency are positively associated. Specifically, true information may be easier to process than false information and individuals may reverse this link in their truth judgments. The current research investigates the important but so far untested precondition of the learning explanation for the fluency-truth effect. In particular, five experiments (total N = 712) test whether participants experience information known to be true as easier to process than information known to be false. Participants in Experiment 1a judged true statements easier to read than false statements. Experiment 1b was a preregistered direct replication with a large sample and again found increased legibility for true statements—importantly, however, this was not the case for statements for which the truth status was unknown. Experiment 1b thereby shows that it is not the actual truth or falsehood of information but the believed truth or falsehood that is associated with processing fluency. In Experiment 2, true calculations were rated as easier to read than false calculations. Participants in Experiment 3 judged it easier to listen to calculations generally known to be true than to calculations generally known to be false. Experiment 4 shows an effect of truth on processing fluency independent of statement familiarity. Discussion centers on the current explanation for the fluency-truth effect and the validity of processing fluency as a cue in truth judgments.en
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CitationNahon, L. S., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Reber, R., & Greifeneder, R. (2021). Code for: Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluency. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4895en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/3979.2
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4895
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychArchivesen
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Is referenced byhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104819
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4894
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104819
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Keyword(s)Processing fluencyen
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Keyword(s)Truth effecten
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleCode for: Truth feels easy: Knowing information is true enhances experienced processing fluencyen
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