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False fame prevented: avoiding fluency effects without judgmental correction.

Sascha Topolinski1, Fritz Strack

  • 1Department of Psychology II, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. sascha.topolinski@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Researchers found a new way to prevent fluency effects by blocking the physical sources of fluency, like covert pronunciations. This method works independently of other correction strategies and has implications for advertising and investment decisions.

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Published on: January 29, 2020

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Fluency effects, where ease of processing influences judgment, are pervasive.
  • Previous research focused on cognitive correction strategies.
  • The embodied nature of fluency, particularly oral-motor simulation, was underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate a novel method for preventing fluency effects by targeting their embodied sources.
  • To demonstrate the efficacy of procedural blocking of oral-motor simulations.
  • To explore the implications for judgment correction and applied decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using verbal and non-verbal stimuli.
  • A secondary oral-motor task was employed to block covert pronunciations.
  • Evaluated effects on the false-fame effect, trust in repeated stimuli, and hazardousness judgments.

Main Results:

  • Blocking oral-motor simulations significantly decreased the false-fame effect for actor names.
  • Prevented increases in trust for repeated brand and stock names.
  • Successfully inhibited fluency effects on hazardousness judgments for words.

Conclusions:

  • Procedural blocking of embodied fluency sources offers a new "decontamination" method for judgments.
  • This approach is independent of exposure, mood, motivation, and post hoc correction.
  • Findings have significant implications for advertising, investment, and understanding judgment biases.