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Bakhtiari, Giti, Koerner, Anita and Topolinski, Sascha ORCID: 0000-0001-9295-3463 (2016). The role of fluency in preferences for inward over outward words. Acta Psychol., 171. S. 110 - 118. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1873-6297

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Abstract

The present studies examined a novel explanation for the in-out effect, the phenomenon that words with inward wanderings of consonantal articulation spots are preferred over words with outward wanderings. We hypothesized that processing fluency might account for the in-out effect instead of, or in addition to, the originally proposed mechanism of motor-associated motivational states. Inward words could be more fluently processed than outward words, which could lead to the preference effect. Corpus analyses (Studies 1a and 1b) revealed more inward than outward words in English and German, which could account for their differing fluency. Additionally, inward compared to outward words were pronounced faster (Study 2) and were rated as being easier to pronounce (Studies 3a and 3b), indicating greater fluency. Crucially, a mediation analysis (Study 4) suggests that the influence of consonantal direction on preference was partially mediated by fluency. However, accounting for the influence of fluency still left a significant residual in-out effect, not accounted for by our fluency measure. This evidence supports a partial causal contribution of articulation fluency to the in-out effect. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bakhtiari, Giti UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Koerner, Anita UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Topolinski, Sascha UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9295-3463 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-256675
DOI:	10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.10.006
Journal or Publication Title:	Acta Psychol.
Volume:	171
Page Range:	S. 110 - 118
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-6297
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROCESSING FLUENCY; PRONUNCIATION TASK; JUDGMENT BIASES; LEXICAL ACCESS; MERE EXPOSURE; MOTOR FLUENCY; FREQUENCY; ARTICULATION; MEMORY; EASE Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25667