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¹Department of Cognitive Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. niv.reggev@mail.huji.ac.il

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Metacognition
Judgment and Decision Making

Background:

Fluency, the subjective ease of information processing, impacts judgments.
Prior research often examined single sources of fluency.
The moderating role of cognitive mindsets on multiple fluency sources was unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how cognitive mindsets (processing modes) influence the use of fluency from simultaneous sources.
To examine the impact of a content-unrelated mindset manipulation on the use of familiarity and accessibility.

Main Methods:

Participants underwent a cognitive mindset manipulation using Jacoby's process dissociation paradigm.
A subsequent metamemory task measured the influence of two simultaneous fluency sources: familiarity and accessibility.
The experimental design allowed for the separate measurement of each fluency source's contribution.

Main Results:

The content-unrelated mindset manipulation successfully altered the participants' use of fluency.
The influence of both familiarity and accessibility on judgments was significantly reduced (attenuated) by the mindset manipulation.
This demonstrates a general effect of cognitive mindsets on fluency utilization.

Conclusions:

Cognitive mindsets causally impact the utilization of fluency.
The effect of mindsets on fluency is general, affecting multiple sources like familiarity and accessibility.
Fluency's dependence on a complex cognitive environment, including processing modes, is highlighted.