The processing of prices across numerical formats
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Elsevier
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Price processing Componential processing Compatibility effect
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2021-03-06Referencia bibliográfica
Fernando Ojedo, Pedro Macizo, The processing of prices across numerical formats, Acta Psychologica, Volume 215, 2021, 103288, ISSN 0001-6918, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103288]
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Spanish Government PID2019-111359GB-I00/SRA State Research Agency/10.130 39/501100011033Abstract
We evaluated whether the format in which prices are presented determines the processing of their magnitude. A price comparison task was used in which two-digit prices with Arabic digits, written number words and auditory number words were presented in the euro currency. Prices were number-monetary category (NMC) compatible (49 euros - 36 cents) when the number and monetary category of one price were larger than those of the other (49 > 36, euros > cents); or NMC incompatible (49 cents - 36 euros) when the number of one price was larger but the monetary category smaller than those of the other (49 > 36, cents < euros). In addition, there were unitdecade (UD) compatible prices when the decade and unit of one price were larger than those of the other (49 euros - 36 cents, 4 > 3, 9 > 6); and UD incompatible prices when the decade of one price was larger but the unit smaller than those of the other (46 euros - 39 cents, 4 > 3, 6 < 9). The results showed NMC compatibility effects in all numerical formats. However, the UD compatibility effect was not found in any numerical format. The results are discussed within the hybrid model of multisymbolic magnitude processing.