308 © 2015 Guilford Publications, Inc. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Humboldt Foundation (Oyserman) and from the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School (Mourey) and the helpful comments we received from Norbert Schwarz, Michigan’s Culture and Self Lab group, and from participants in research seminars and colloquia at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Robert Wye...

Intellectually bright children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 from one school and adults were assessed on measures of verbal and on a new measure of figural fluency. Consistent with previous research, age-dependent performance was observed on both fluency tasks. Analysis of covariance with motor speed as the covariate reduced the F ratio for the figural task, although age-related significant differences...

Fluent reading comprehension was explored in a series of experiments involving sentences presented in normal and inverted typography. Sentences read in a test phase had been read earlier in exactly the same form, or in versions that were created by (a) altering the word order within sentences to create randomly ordered word strings or (b) exchanging causally related clauses to form new meaningf...

Human memory and Internet search engines face a shared computational problem, needing to retrieve stored pieces of information in response to a query. We explored whether they employ similar solutions, testing whether we could predict human performance on a fluency task using PageRank, a component of the Google search engine. In this task, people were shown a letter of the alphabet and asked to...

Similarity judgments have traditionally been assumed to arise from an alignment process that seeks correspondences between the objects and relations for two entities. Several recent studies have shown that thematic relationships between items (e.g. bowl and spoon) can influence people’s assessments of similarity above and beyond the effect of feature match and mismatch. We suggest that thematic...

Vol. XLIV (August 2007), 347–356 347 © 2007, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Nathan Novemsky is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: Nathan.Novemsky@yale.edu), and Ravi Dhar is George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing (e-mail: ravi.dhar@yale.edu), Yale School of Management. Norbert Schwarz is Professor of Psychology; Professo...

Ambiguity is often associated with negative affective responses, and enjoying ambiguity seems restricted to only a few situations, such as experiencing art. Nevertheless, theories of judgment formation, especially the "processing fluency account", suggest that easy-to-process (non-ambiguous) stimuli are processed faster and are therefore preferred to (ambiguous) stimuli, which are hard to proce...

This paper examines the possibility that fluency – the subjective experience of ease or difficulty associated with cognitive processing – has an impact on the psychological distance of stimuli. Two studies directly examine the relationship between fluency and psychological distance. Five additional studies look at the implications of that relationship.

In this article we describe the basis of the Fluency project for foreign language pronunciation training using automatic speech recognition. We describe the theoretical base, the interactive duration correction module, and our work toward adaptation to the way in which the user learns best. We show results in preliminary tests of the latter, and discuss future directions of the project.