Effects of Meaning and Symmetry on Judgments of Size: An Amount of Information Account

Research has shown that people judge words as having bigger font size than nonwords. This finding has been interpreted in terms of processing fluency, with higher fluency leading to judgments of bigger size. If so, symmetric numbers (e.g., 44) which can be processed more fluently are predicted to be...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Rolf eReber, Bo eChristensen, Beat eMeier
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Subjects:	Size Perception number processing Symmetry Amount of information Processing fluency
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01270/full