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Scharrer, Lisa; Britt, M. Anne; Stadtler, Marc; Bromme, Rainer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Well-educated laypeople tend to rely on their own ability to evaluate scientific claims when they obtain information from texts with high comprehensibility. The present study investigated whether controversial content reduces this facilitating effect of high text comprehensibility on readers' self-reliance and whether the influence of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Readability, Medicine, Reading Materials
Kim, Hyun-Jeong Joyce; Millis, Keith – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study investigated the influence of sourcing and relatedness on the integration of events embedded in simple stories. Participants read pairs of "breaking news stories" from either 1 or 2 news agencies that were believed to be from the Internet. The stories within each pair were either related by virtue of shared situational dimensions (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Comprehension, Relationship