Intuition beyond recognition : when less familiar events are liked more

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serval:BIB_FEDACEC58491
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Intuition beyond recognition : when less familiar events are liked more
Journal
Experimental Psychology
Author(s)
Betsch T., Hoffmann K., Hoffrage U., Plessner H.
ISSN
1618-3169
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2003
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
50
Number
1
Pages
49-54
Language
english
Abstract
In a laboratory experiment, we compare the relative impact of two possible determinants of intuitive evaluative judgments: ease of recognition and total value of prior encounters with a target. Participants encode daily return values of shares on the stock market while watching videotaped ads on the computer screen. This dual-task procedure ensures that participants subsequently lack relevant event memories and thus have to rely on their intuition when evaluating the targets. In the presentation, the share appearing least frequently produced the highest stun of returns. In contrast, the share appearing most frequently produced the lowest sum of returns. Evaluative judgments reveal a preference for the share with the highest sum of returns, although, as evident from recognition latencies, it was the one that was more difficult to recognize. The results provide evidence for the value-account model of implicit attitude formation (Betsch, Plessner, Schwieren, & Gutig, 2001), which predicts that intuitive evaluative judgments reflect the total value of prior encounters.
Keywords
Implicit attitudes, Recognition, Information aggregation
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