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Does Explicit Attribution Moderate the Influence of Text Fluency on Judgments of Author Competence?

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2016, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Experimental.
This study examined the moderating influence of explicit attribution on the effects of fluency on judgments of an author’s intelligence. In three experiments and a combined analysis participants recruited from the online recruiting database Amazon Mechanical Turk were asked to complete a survey. They were asked to rate an author’s intelligence based on a single passage presented in high or low fluency font paired with one attribution condition. The attribution conditions consisted of two possible explicit attributions (to the author or experimenter) or up to two possible unspecified attributions. Previous research results were replicated. Additionally a significant main effect of fluency was found in all experiments and the combined analysis. A significant interaction of fluency and attribution were found in two experiments as well as the combined analysis. Post hoc testing revealed the fluency effect was restricted mainly to conditions in which the font choice was attributable to the author rather than being unattributed or attributable to the experimenter.
Richard Anderson (Advisor)
Mary Hare (Committee Member)
Laura Leventhal (Committee Member)
38 p.

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  • Yeager, L. T. (2016). Does Explicit Attribution Moderate the Influence of Text Fluency on Judgments of Author Competence? [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458053642

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yeager, Lauren. Does Explicit Attribution Moderate the Influence of Text Fluency on Judgments of Author Competence? 2016. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458053642.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yeager, Lauren. "Does Explicit Attribution Moderate the Influence of Text Fluency on Judgments of Author Competence?" Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458053642

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)