Warning readers to avoid irrelevant information: When being vague might be valuable

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-231

  Peshkam, Annie ^a   Mensink, Michael C ^b   Putnam, Adam L ^c   Rapp, David N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Instructions; Reading comprehension; Seductive details; Text processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957739927     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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