Does ease mediate the ease-of-retrieval effect? A meta-analysis.

Does Music Ease Pain

Critical care patients often experience significant pain and anxiety. These symptoms may be rooted existentially as patients endure fear and uncertainty, but disease and treatment sources are other common offenders, as are noxious environmental stimuli. Unrelieved pain induces a generalized sympathetic response (increasing heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and peripheral resistance)...

Ease of Retrieval Effects in Persuasion: A Self-Validation Analysis

Three studies are reported examining a new explanation for ease of retrieval effects in persuasion. In each study, participants read a persuasive communication and were induced to generate either a low or high number of favorable or unfavorable thoughts in response. In conflict with the assumptions of most previous studies, the authors predicted and found that ease of retrieval effects occur pr...

Temporal distance and ease of retrieval

Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) proposes that pro-arguments (pros) constitute high-level construals and counter-arguments (cons) low-level construals. Therefore, pros are more salient for distant-future actions than are cons and the reverse holds for near-future actions (Eyal, Liberman, Trope, & Walther, 2004). We further predicted and results from one experiment show that ...

Does Ease of Communication Increase Trade? Commonality

Gravity model explanations of trade volumes frequently include dummy variables to account for the commonality of language among trading partners. In this paper we use a data set for the number of people in a country who speak English as a first language or English as a second language (Crystal, 1997) as an indicator of the ease with which trade with the United States occurs. Controlling for com...

The ease of detection