Detrimental Effects of Seductive Details on Multiple Text Inference Generation

EasyChair Preprint 3841

Abstract

Seductive details are highly interesting, but irrelevant, elements added to learning materials. The current study examined how the inclusion of these details influences learners’ ability to form inferences between texts. Participants were asked to read two texts about El Niño and to judge the validity of inferences from across texts. Results show that seductive details lead to decreased performance, though learner characteristics provided some general benefits on this task.

Keyphrases: inferences, multiple text comprehension, seductive details

@booklet{EasyChair:3841,
  author    = {Alexander Johnson and Jason Braasch and Roger Kreuz},
  title     = {Detrimental Effects of Seductive Details on Multiple Text Inference Generation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3841},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}