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@article{Hertwig08, abstract = {Boundedly rational heuristics for inference can be surprisingly accurate and frugal for several reasons. They can exploit environmental structures, co-opt complex capacities, and elude effortful search by exploiting information that automatically arrives on the mental stage. The fluency heuristic is a prime example of a heuristic that makes the most of an automatic by-product of retrieval from memory, namely, retrieval fluency. In 4 experiments, the authors show that retrieval fluency can be a proxy for real-world quantities, that people can discriminate between two objects' retrieval fluencies, and that people's inferences are in line with the fluency heuristic (in particular fast inferences) and with experimentally manipulated fluency. The authors conclude that the fluency heuristic may be one tool in the mind's repertoire of strategies that artfully probes memory for encapsulated frequency information that can veridically reflect statistical regularities in the world.}, author = {Hertwig, Ralph and Herzog, Stefan M. and Schooler, Lael J. and Reimer, Torsten}, citeulike-article-id = {5718917}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013025}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18763900}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18763900}, doi = {10.1037/a0013025}, issn = {0278-7393}, journal = {Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition}, keywords = {fluency, heuristics, information\_retrieval}, month = {September}, number = {5}, pages = {1191--1206}, posted-at = {2009-09-03 17:29:54}, priority = {3}, title = {Fluency heuristic: a model of how the mind exploits a by-product of information retrieval.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013025}, volume = {34}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - Hertwig08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5718917 N2 - Boundedly rational heuristics for inference can be surprisingly accurate and frugal for several reasons. They can exploit environmental structures, co-opt complex capacities, and elude effortful search by exploiting information that automatically arrives on the mental stage. The fluency heuristic is a prime example of a heuristic that makes the most of an automatic by-product of retrieval from memory, namely, retrieval fluency. In 4 experiments, the authors show that retrieval fluency can be a proxy for real-world quantities, that people can discriminate between two objects' retrieval fluencies, and that people's inferences are in line with the fluency heuristic (in particular fast inferences) and with experimentally manipulated fluency. The authors conclude that the fluency heuristic may be one tool in the mind's repertoire of strategies that artfully probes memory for encapsulated frequency information that can veridically reflect statistical regularities in the world. IS - 5 JF - Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition SN - 0278-7393 EP - 1206 TI - Fluency heuristic: a model of how the mind exploits a by-product of information retrieval. VL - 34 SP - 1191 KW - fluency KW - heuristics KW - information_retrieval AU - Hertwig, Ralph AU - Herzog, Stefan AU - Schooler, Lael AU - Reimer, Torsten PY - 2008/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013025 ER -