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Direct linkAbendroth, Johanna; Richter, Tobias – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Readers often prioritize processing and comprehension of information perceived as relevant to a particular intention. Using a repeated-measurement study, we investigated how readers' prior beliefs and external reading perspectives influence processing and comprehension of belief-relevant texts on two socioscientific controversies. University…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Beliefs, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension
Maier, Johanna; Richter, Tobias; Britt, M. Anne – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Readers' memory for belief-consistent texts is often stronger than for belief-inconsistent texts (text-belief consistency effect). However, presenting belief-consistent and belief-inconsistent texts alternatingly reduces the discrepancy between the memory strengths of belief-consistent and belief-inconsistent texts. The present study used eye…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes, Memory
Kendeou, Panayiota; Walsh, Erinn K.; Smith, Emily R.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
In the present set of experiments, we systematically examined the processes that occur while reading texts designed to refute and explain commonsense beliefs that reside in readers' long-term memory. In Experiment 1 (n = 36), providing readers with a refutation-plus-explanation of a commonsense belief was sufficient to significantly reduce…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Beliefs, Misconceptions, Error Correction
Wolfe, Michael B.; Tanner, Shawna M.; Taylor, Andrew R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examine students' processing and representation of arguments and counterarguments in one-sided scientific texts. In Experiment 1, students read texts about evolution and TV violence. Sentence reading times indicated that subjects slowed down reading to the extent that arguments were both more consistent, and inconsistent, with the text…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Processing, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes
