The following are some conditions in which people “go with the flow” and are affected more strongly by ease of retrieval than by the content they retrieved: when they are engaged in another effortful task at the same time when they are in a good mood because they just thought of a happy episode in their life if they score low on a depression scale if they are knowledgeable novices on the topic of the task, in contrast to true experts when they score high on a scale of faith in intuition if they are (or are made to feel) powerful
