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Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 87-99 (1998)
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0202_2

Accessible Content and Accessibility Experiences: The Interplay of Declarative and Experiential Information in Judgment

Norbert Schwarz

University of Michigan

Recall tasks render 2 distinct sources of information available: the recalled content and the experienced ease or difficulty with which it can be brought to mind. Because retrieving many pieces of information is more difficult than retrieving only a few, reliance on accessible content and subjective accessibility experiences leads to opposite judgmental outcomes. People are likely to base judgments on accessibility experiences when they adopt a heuristic processing strategy and the informational value of the experience is not called into question. When the experience is considered nondiagnostic, or when a systematic processing strategy is adopted, people rely on accessible content. Implications for the operation of the availability heuristic and the emergence of knowledge accessibility effects are discussed.


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