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Journal article
Eliciting false insights with semantic priming
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.29, pp.954-970
06/2022
PMID: 35112311
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Abstract
The insight experience (or ‘Aha moment’) generally evokes strong feelings of certainty and confidence. An ‘Aha’ experience for a false idea could underlie many false beliefs and delusions. However, for as long as insight experiences have been studied, false insights have remained difficult to elicit experimentally. That difficulty, in turn, highlights the fact that we know little about what causes people to experience a false insight. Across two experiments (total N = 300), we developed and tested a new paradigm to elicit false insights. In Experiment 1 we used a combination of semantic priming and visual similarity to elicit feelings of insight for incorrect solutions to anagrams. These false insights were relatively common but were experienced as weaker than correct ones. In Experiment 2 we replicated the findings of Experiment 1 and found that semantic priming and visual similarity interacted to produce false insights. These studies highlight the importance of misleading semantic processing and the feasibility of the solution in the generation of false insights.
Details
- Title
- Eliciting false insights with semantic priming
- Creators
- Hilary Grimmer - University of QueenslandRuben Laukkonen - Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamJason Tangen - University of QueenslandWilliam von Hippel - University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.29, pp.954-970
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions.
- Identifiers
- 991013062213102368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2022 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article