font size illusion / illusion de la taille de la police de caractère
Synonyms: font size effect
Synonymes : effet de la taille de la police de caractère
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: Memory for words does not vary with font size. However, people tend to believe that words written in larger fonts are easier to remember than words written in smaller fonts.
Définition : Alors que la mémoire de mots ne dépend pas de la taille de la police de caractère, les personnes ont tendance à croire que les mots écrits avec une police de grande taille de police sont mieux mémorisés que les mots écrits avec une petite taille de police.
Broader term: metamemory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la métamémoire
Related terms: judgment of learning
Termes associés : jugement d'apprentissage
Selected bibliography: Kornell, N., Rhodes, M. G., Castel, A. D., & Tauber, S. K. (2011). The ease-of-processing heuristic and the stability bias: Dissociating memory, memory beliefs, and memory judgments. Psychological Science, 22(6), 787–794. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611407929 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Mueller, M. L., Dunlosky, J., Tauber, S. K., & Rhodes, M. G. (2014). The font-size effect on judgments of learning: Does it exemplify fluency effects or reflect people’s beliefs about memory? Journal of Memory and Language, 70, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.007 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Price, J., & Harrison, A. (2017). Examining what prestudy and immediate judgments of learning reveal about the bases of metamemory judgments. Journal of Memory and Language, 94, 177–194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2016.12.003 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Rhodes, M. G., & Castel, A. D. (2008). Memory predictions are influenced by perceptual information: Evidence for metacognitive illusions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(4), 615–625. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013684 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Su, N., Li, T., Zheng, J., Hu, X., Fan, T., & Luo, L. (2018). How font size affects judgments of learning: Simultaneous mediating effect of item-specific beliefs about fluency and moderating effect of beliefs about font size and memory. PLOS ONE, 13(7), e0200888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200888 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Undorf, M., Söllner, A., & Bröder, A. (2018). Simultaneous utilization of multiple cues in judgments of learning. Memory & Cognition, 46(4), 507–519. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0780-6 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Undorf, M., & Zimdahl, M. F. (2019). Metamemory and memory for a wide range of font sizes: What is the contribution of perceptual fluency? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(1), 97–109. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000571 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
Dataset citations: Chang, M. (2023, March 22). The Font Size Effect Depends on List Relatedness. https://osf.io/7j2pv, Fan, T. (2021, September 10). The Contribution of Metamemory Beliefs to the Font Size Effect on Judgments of Learning: Is Word Frequency a Moderating Factor? doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/D894V, Maxwell, N. P., & Huff, M. J. (2021, October 18). Perceptually Distinctive Features of Study Words Do Not Inflate Judgements of Learning: Evidence from Font Size, Highlights, and Sans Forgetica Font Type. https://osf.io/3xwdr/, Su, N., Li, T., Zheng, J., Hu, X., Fan, T., & Luo, L. (2018). How font size affects judgments of learning: Simultaneous mediating effect of item-specific beliefs about fluency and moderating effect of beliefs about font size and memory. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/How_font_size_affects_judgments_of_learning_Simultaneous_mediating_effect_of_item-specific_beliefs_about_fluency_and_moderating_effect_of_beliefs_about_font_size_and_memory/6846332/1, Yang, C. (2021, November 2). The font size effect on judgements of learning. https://osf.io/2zfye/