Processing and recall of seductive details in scientific text

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 569-587

  Lehman, Stephen ^a   Schraw, Gregory ^b   McCrudden, Matthew T ^c   Hartley, Kendall ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Seductive details; Situational interest; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748817434     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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