Learning, Thinking, and Emoting With Discourse Technologies

American Psychologist

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 746-757

  Graesser, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Discourse processing; Emotions; Learning technologies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; TEACHING; THINKING;

COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LEARNING; THINKING;

EID: 82055172631     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024974     Document Type: Article

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