ABSTRACT The Optimal Innovation Hypothesis (Giora et al., 2004), following from the
Graded Salience Hypothesis (Giora, 2003), is being reviewed and revisited. The attempt is …

In 6 experiments we test the Optimal Innovation Hypothesis, according to which an optimally
innovative stimulus, such that induces a novel response while allowing for the recovery of a …

Zusammenfassung The Graded Salience Hypothesis, introducing the notion of Salience (cf.
Giora 1997; 2003), has been recently reviewed and reframed as one of the modules of the …

We report an experiment investigating how stimulus complexity and conceptual fluency (ie,
the ease of deriving meaning) influence aesthetic liking judgments for abstract artworks. We …

According to popular interpretations of both the mood repair and affect-as-information
theories, affective states of the same valence should have equivalent influences on …

'Default'can mean many different things in theories of meaning. It is so not only because of
the multiplicity of approaches and dimensions from which meaning can be studied but also …

Three experiments tested the hypothesis of implicit associations between happiness and the
performance ease concept and between sadness and the performance difficulty concept. All …

Abstract Replicating Raghunathan and Pham, results from two experiments confirm that
while anxiety triggers a preference for options that are safer and provide a sense of control …

What psychological mechanisms underlie aesthetic judgements? An influential account
known as the Hedonic Marking of Fluency, later developed into a Processing Fluency …

Bell's (1985) disappointment theory postulates that probability and magnitude of outcome
affect the intensity of disappointment after undesirable outcomes and that of elation after …