Duration Sensitivity Depends on Stimulus Familiarity

Autor/inn/en	Morewedge, Carey K.; Kassam, Karim S.; Hsee, Christopher K.; Caruso, Eugene M.
Titel	Duration Sensitivity Depends on Stimulus Familiarity
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138 (2009) 2, S.177-186 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
DOI	10.1037/a0015219
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Familiarity; Comparative Analysis; Decision Making; Student Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; Experience; Time Perspective + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Schülerverhalten; Erfahrung; Zeitbezug
Abstract	When people are asked to assess or compare the value of experienced or hypothetical events, one of the most intriguing observations is their apparent insensitivity to event duration. The authors propose that duration insensitivity occurs when stimuli are evaluated in isolation because they typically lack comparison information. People should be able to evaluate the duration of stimuli in isolation, however, when stimuli are familiar and evoke comparison information. The results of 3 experiments support the hypothesis. Participants were insensitive to the duration of hypothetical (Experiment 1) and real (Experiment 2) unfamiliar experiences but sensitive to the duration of familiar experiences. In Experiment 3, participants were insensitive to the duration of an unfamiliar noise when it was unlabeled but sensitive to its duration when it was given a familiar label (i.e., a telephone ring). Rather than being a unique phenomenon, duration neglect (and perhaps other forms of scope insensitivity) appears to be a particular case of insensitivity to unfamiliar attributes. (Contains 2 figures and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10