Understanding the memory advantage of counterintuitive concepts

Previous work suggests that concepts that are only slightly counterintuitive are more memorable than concepts that are intuitive or overly counterintuitive (Boyer, 1994; Boyer & Ramble, 2001), although causes for this memory advantage have been debated (Barrett, 2008; Upal, 2009). We conducted f...

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Authors: Harmon-Vukić, Mary (Author) ; Upal, M. Afzal (Author) ; Sheehan, Kelly J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2012
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-139
Further subjects:B Integration
B elaboration
B processing time
B minimally counterintuitiveness effect
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