To evaluate the veracity of models of the mere exposure effect and to understand the
processes that moderate the effect, we conducted a meta-analysis of the influence of …

Abstract Thinking is accompanied by metacognitive experiences of ease or difficulty. People
draw on these experiences as a source of information that can complement or challenge the …

• Why do people behave and think the way they do?• What makes people choose certain
products and services?• How does consumption affect our everyday lives? Informed by …

In a crowded social media marketplace, restaurants often try to stand out by showcasing
elaborate “Instagrammable” foods. Using an image classification machine learning …

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of
inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies …

Processing fluency, or the subjective experience of ease with which people process
information, reliably influences people's judgments across a broad range of social …

Attitudes have been a central topic in social psychology from its early beginnings. But what
exactly are attitudes, where do they come from, and how can they be modified? The overall …

Dual Process Theories (DPT) of reasoning posit that judgments are mediated by both fast,
automatic processes and more deliberate, analytic ones. A critical, but unanswered question …

In this article, we develop an account of how aesthetic preferences can be formed as a result
of two hierarchical, fluency-based processes. Our model suggests that processing …

Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional,
methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished …