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Roman Abel; Julian Roelle; Marc Stadtler – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated how the sequence of presenting social media sources in an unsupervised inductive learning setting supports the acquisition of source evaluation skills in two different age groups. Participants were 63 upper and 59 lower secondary students. They had to identify characteristics of trustworthiness while studying sources labeled as…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria, Skill Development, Credibility
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Wertgen, Andreas G.; Richter, Tobias; Rouet, Jean-François – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the role of source credibility in the validation of factual information embedded in short narratives. In a self-paced reading experiment, we tested the assumption that the degree of (im-)plausibility determines the extent that source credibility affects validation during comprehension. We used reading times of target and…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Sources, Expertise, Validity
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Lombardi, Doug; Seyranian, Viviane; Sinatra, Gale M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Gaps between what scientists and laypeople find plausible may act as a barrier to learning complex and/or controversial socioscientific concepts. For example, individuals may consider scientific explanations that human activities are causing current climate change as implausible. This plausibility judgment may be due-in part-to individuals'…
Descriptors: Climate, Scientific Research, Credibility, Scientific Concepts