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Vividness in Judgements of Guilt
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2003 This study investigated the vividness variable in legal decision-making. It was hypothesised that different verdicts regarding the same legal case can be obtained by simply varying the vividness of phrases, without changing any probative element. 53 participants read Original (26) or Vivid (27) versions of testimonies to a homicide case, then made a ...
Bensi L. +3 more
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Figural Vividness and Persuasion: Capturing the “Elusive” Vividness Effect
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011 Despite the widespread belief that the use of vividness in persuasive communications is effective, many laboratory studies have failed to find vividness effects. A possible explanation for this discrepancy is that many laboratory tests have not vivified solely the central thesis of the message but have vivified irrelevant portions of the message as ...
Rosanna E, Guadagno +2 more
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, 2017 According to Nisbett and Ross, “Information may be described as vivid, that is, as likely to attract and hold our attention and excite the imagination to the extent that it is (a) emotionally interesting, (b) concrete and imagery-provoking, and (c) proximate in a sensory, temporal, or spatial way.” Despite a widespread belief held by scholars and ...
Patrick J. Ewell, Rosanna E. Guadagno
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Vividness of Imagery and Creativity
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1993 We evaluated the extent to which vividness of imagery is correlated with creativity in a sample of 1361 university students from different disciplines and assessed which sensory modalities of vividness of imagery best predicted creativity. Vividness of imagery was generally poorly correlated with creativity and, for all subjects combined, explained ...
A, Campos, M A, González
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2017 ABSTRACT:How are we to understand the phenomenology of imagining? Attempts to answer this question often invoke descriptors concerning the ‘vivacity’ or ‘vividness’ of our imaginative states. Not only are particular imaginings often phenomenologically compared and contrasted with other imaginings on grounds of how vivid they are, but such imaginings ...
AMY KIND, Amy, Kind
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VIVIDNESS OF IMAGE AND RETRIEVAL TIME
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1991 The relationship between vividness of image and information-retrieval time was examined. In an integrated-image condition the retrieval time for a vivid-image set was shorter than the retrieval time for a dim-image set; on the other hand, there was no difference in retrieval time between vivid- and dim-image sets in a verbal-rehearsal condition.
Shinsuke Hishitani
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