ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
Principles of fluency
chapter 4|20 pages
Once more with feeling!
part II|72 pages
Fluency in social processing
chapter 9|18 pages
When good blends go bad
part III|84 pages
Adaptive and strategic uses of fluency
chapter 13|14 pages
About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets
chapter 14|21 pages
Fluency and behavior regulation
part IV|7 pages
Final assessment