Abstract
People feel different degrees of difficulty while processing information from their environment. This metacognitive experience of subjective (dis)fluency can be subsequently used as a cue in decision making.
Usually, people judge disfluent stimuli as more dangerous, based on a schema disfluency -> unfamiliarity -> risk. This work examines 3 situational contexts where the relationship is supposed to be reversed and fluency is expected to be an indicator of risk.
In one of the contexts (judgment of risk of cities in a war-torn country), the effect was empirically demonstrated.