Fluency misattribution and auditory hindsight bias

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1331 - 1343
• Main Authors: Bernstein, Daniel M., Kumar, Ragav, Masson, Michael E. J., Levitin, Daniel J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Bias; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive Psychology; Court hearings & proceedings; Earthquakes; Economic forecasting; Estimates; Estimation bias; Hearing; Humans; Information processing; Judgment - physiology; Negligence; Peers; Psychological aspects; Psychology; Public officials; Repetition Priming - physiology; Speech Intelligibility - physiology; Speech Perception - physiology; Trials; Young Adult; Repetition priming; Decision making; Judgment

We conducted three experiments to test the fluency-misattribution account of auditory hindsight bias. According to this account, prior exposure to a clearly presented auditory stimulus produces fluent (improved) processing of a distorted version of that stimulus, which results in participants mistak...