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discrepancy-attribution hypothesis  

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  • The hypothesis to "explain the source of feelings of familiarity. By that hypothesis, people chronically evaluate the coherence of their processing. When the quality of processing is perceived as being discrepant from that which could be expected, people engage in an attributional process; the feeling of familiarity occurs when perceived discrepancy is attributed to prior experience." (Whittlesea & Williams, 2001b, p. 3).

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  • discrepancy-attribution account

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Karpicke, J. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). False memories are not surprising : The subjective experience of an associative memory illusion. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(4), 1065‑1079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.004

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Whittlesea, B. W. A. (2002). False memory and the discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : The prototype-familiarity illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(1), 96‑115. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.131.1.96

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (1998). Why do strangers feel familiar, but friends don’t? A discrepancy-attribution account of feelings of familiarity. Acta Psychologica, 98(2‑3), 141‑165. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-6918(97)00040-1

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2000). The source of feelings of familiarity : The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(3), 547‑565. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.26.3.547

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2001a). The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : II. Expectation, uncertainty, surprise, and feelings of familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(1), 14‑33. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.14

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  • • Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2001b). The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : I The heuristic basis of feelings and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(1), 3‑13. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.3

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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