Conceptcognitive fluency
Cognitive Fluency
A psychological concept referring to the subjective ease with which information is processed. Research indicates that content with high cognitive fluency—such as text that reads smoothly—tends to be misjudged by readers as more credible and accurate, even when the content itself is not substantively deeper or more rigorous.
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Sep 19
Research on cognitive fluency in psychology indicates that readers tend to mistakenly judge content that reads smoothly as credible.
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