Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Imagine scrolling through your social media feed, only to come across a news ...

Co-authored by Nikita Baxi and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. In the age of the internet, the desire to stay informed about global events often comes at a cost—a cost to our mental health and moral values.

Psychologists have demonstrated a robust psychological illusion that distorts how we remember when something happened. The illusion causes a mistaken belief that repeated experiences actually occurred ...

Three experiments assessed the stability of the repetition effect in time judgment. In Experiment 1, subjects (N = 18) produced intervals ranging from 8 to 31 sec in a two-phase procedure with a five ...

Running several ads for the same product in a magazine sometimes results in more positive consumer impressions. But what about all the times when recurrence seems not to matter" In the June issue of ...

According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people reproducing the structure of the ...

Citations: Nordhielm, Christie. 2002. The Influence of Level of Processing on Advertising Repetition Effects. Journal of Consumer Research. (3)371-382.