Disfluent fonts don’t help people solve math problems
| Autor: | Ty W. Boyer, Shane Frederick, Terence C. Burnham, Jonathon P. Schuldt, Andrew Meyer, Valerie A. Thompson, Rakefet Ackerman, Linden J. Ball, Juan D. Guevara Pinto, Gordon Pennycook |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult
media_common.quotation_subject Counterintuitive Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Mathematical Concepts law.invention Fluency Presentation Pattern Recognition Visual Reading Developmental Neuroscience law Reading (process) Font CLARITY Humans Psychology Problem Solving Psychomotor Performance General Psychology media_common Cognitive psychology Analytic reasoning |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 144:e16-e30 |
| ISSN: | 1939-2222 0096-3445 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xge0000049 |
| Popis: | Prior research suggests that reducing font clarity can cause people to consider printed information more carefully. The most famous demonstration showed that participants were more likely to solve counterintuitive math problems when they were printed in hard-to-read font. However, after pooling data from that experiment with 16 attempts to replicate it, we find no effect on solution rates. We examine potential moderating variables, including cognitive ability, presentation format, and experimental setting, but we find no evidence of a disfluent font benefit under any conditions. More generally, though disfluent fonts slightly increase response times, we find little evidence that they activate analytic reasoning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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