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Towler, Annette – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2009
This study focuses on trainer expressiveness and trainee mastery orientation within the context of the seductive details effect. The seductive details effect refers to inclusion of "highly interesting and entertaining information that is only tangentially related to the topic" (Harp & Mayer, 1998, p. 1). One hundred thirty-two participants…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Recall (Psychology), Trainees, Undergraduate Students