The role of need for cognition and reader beliefs in text comprehension and interest development

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-347

  Dai, David Yun ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Intrinsic motivation and interest; Text comprehension; Text genres

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249656849     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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