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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
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Rauchberger, Nirit; Kaniel, Shlomo; Gross, Zehavit – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
This study examines the process of judging complex real-life events in Israel: the disengagement from Gush Katif, Rabin's assassination and the Second Lebanon War. The process of judging is based on Weiner's attribution model, (Weiner, 2000, 2006); however, due to the complexity of the events studied, variables were added to characterize the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluative Thinking, Difficulty Level, Conflict