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Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This eye-tracking study examines how differences in sources' trustworthiness are used by readers to regulate and resolve conflicting scientific claims. One hundred forty-four university students were sequentially presented with two conflicting scientific claims (regarding nanotechnology) across two texts. The claims were indicated to stem from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Critical Reading, Information Sources
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Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne; Thomm, Eva; Gerjets, Peter – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
When reading scientific information on the Internet laypersons frequently encounter conflicting claims. However, they usually lack the ability to resolve these scientific conflicts based on their own prior knowledge. This study aims to investigate how differences in the trustworthiness and/or expertise of the sources putting forward the…
Descriptors: Lay People, Scientific and Technical Information, Internet, Reading Comprehension
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Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne; Gerjets, Peter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present research examines how the usefulness of source information to explain conflicting scientific claims affects laypersons' processing of this information as they seek possible explanations for the conflicting scientific claims in the sources and during resolution of the conflict. In an eye-tracking experiment, we presented 76 participants…
Descriptors: Reading, Information Utilization, Conflict, Eye Movements