Processing fluency, a metacognitive feeling of ease of cognitive processing, serves as a cue in various types of judgments. Processing fluency is sometimes evaluated by response times, with shorter response times indicating higher fluency. The present study examined existence of the opposite association; that is, it tested whether disfluency may lead to faster decision times when it serves as a strong cue in judgment. Retrieval fluency was manipulated in an experiment using previous presentation and phonological fluency by varying pronounceability of pseudowords. Participants liked easy-to-pronounce and previously presented words more. Importantly, their decisions were faster for hard-to-pronounce and easy-to-pronounce pseudowords than for pseudowords moderate in pronounceability. The results thus showed an inverted-U shaped relationship between fluency and decision times. The findings suggest that disfluency can lead to faster decision times and thus demonstrate the importance of separating different processes comprising judgment when response times are used as a measure of processing fluency.

中文翻译：

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没水，但是很快。

处理流利度是一种易于认知的元认知感觉，可以作为各种判断的线索。有时会通过响应时间来评估处理流利程度，响应时间越短表明流利程度越高。本研究检查了相反关联的存在。就是说，它测试了当不满情绪作为判断的有力提示时，是否会导致更快的决定时间。在一个实验中，通过使用先前的提示和语音流利度，通过改变伪词的发音来操纵检索流利度。参加者喜欢易于发音的发音，并且以前讲过的单词更多。重要的是，对于难以发音和易于发音的伪词，他们的决策要比对中等发音的伪词更快。因此，结果显示流畅性和决策时间之间呈倒U型关系。研究结果表明，流利性可以导致更快的决策时间，因此证明了将响应时间用作处理流利性的度量时，分离包括判断在内的不同过程的重要性。