The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth

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作者：
Reber R. [1 ]
Unkelbach C. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen
[2] Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg
来源：
Review of Philosophy and Psychology | 2010年 / 1卷 / 4期
关键词：
True Belief; Stomach Cancer; Distal Criterion; Epistemic Justification; False Statement;
D O I：
10.1007/s13164-010-0039-7
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摘要：
This article combines findings from cognitive psychology on the role of processing fluency in truth judgments with epistemological theory on justification of belief. We first review evidence that repeated exposure to a statement increases the subjective ease with which that statement is processed. This increased processing fluency, in turn, increases the probability that the statement is judged to be true. The basic question discussed here is whether the use of processing fluency as a cue to truth is epistemically justified. In the present analysis, based on Bayes' Theorem, we adopt the reliable-process account of justification presented by Goldman (1986) and show that fluency is a reliable cue to truth, under the assumption that the majority of statements one has been exposed to are true. In the final section, we broaden the scope of this analysis and discuss how processing fluency as a potentially universal cue to judged truth may contribute to cultural differences in commonsense beliefs. © 2010 The Author(s).
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