Global Processing Styles Facilitate the Discovery of Structural Similarity
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Published on: July 16, 2012
Jiansheng Li, Xiaozhen Zhang, Hao Zheng
1Department of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, P.R. China.
Abstract:
This study examined whether global processing style facilitates the discovery of structural similarity. In the two experiments, the participants were presented with three stories after being primed with global or local processing through a Navon task. The first story was the base story, and the other two stories shared either surface similarity or structural similarity with the base story. The results showed that, compared with the participants of the local processing and control groups, a substantially greater number of participants of the global processing group selected the story with structural similarity to the base story. This finding indicated that the global processing style can facilitate the discovery of structural similarity.
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