The Coherence Effect: Blending Cold and Hot Cognitions.
Previous research has shown that making complex judgments and decisions entails a mental reconstruction of the task in a way that increases the state of coherence between the emerging conclusion and its underlying attributes: The attributes that support the conclusion grow stronger, whereas the attr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Personality & Social Psychology Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 369 - 395 |
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American Psychological Association
Sep2015
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