Effects of processing fluency on comparative performance judgments

Reber, Rolf; Meier, Beat; Ruch-Monachon, Marie-Antoinette; Tiberini, Mara (2006). Effects of processing fluency on comparative performance judgments. Acta psychologica, 123(3), pp. 337-354. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.02.001

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Research has shown that performance predictions are biased by the impact of processing fluency. However, existing data are inconclusive with regard to comparative judgments of performance. In five experiments, participants in an easy condition gave more favorable comparative judgments than participants in a difficult condition. Participants judged their performance more favorably if they named colors of non-color words rather than non-matching color words (Experiment 1), if they had to generate six words of a category rather than 12 words (Experiment 2), if they had to run in place for 15 s rather than 2 min (Experiment 3), but the latter result holds only true if participants were not active in sports (Experiment 4). When 67% of the items in a recognition test were old words, participants thought that their recognition performance was better than when 33% of the items were old words, although recognition performance did not differ between groups (Experiment 5). We discuss this result in the light of recent theories about effects of processing fluency on judgments.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health
UniBE Contributor:	Meier, Beat
ISSN:	0001-6918
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:49
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2023 23:32
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.02.001
PubMed ID:	16554016
Web of Science ID:	000241218600009
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/20460 (FactScience: 3761)