Mental models/Cognitive Ease
Memory & Recognition

Cognitive Ease

The feeling of ease associated with processing information that is clear, familiar, and coherent. High cognitive ease increases liking, confidence, and perceived truthfulness.

In plain language

Familiar, fluent, easy-to-process things feel true and good. Cognitive effort feels like risk. Reducing friction increases trust.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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