How Do Readers Explain the Occurrence of Conflicts in Science Texts? Effects of Presentation Format and Source Expertise

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3448-3453

  Stadtler, Marc ^a   Scharrer, Lisa ^a   Bromme, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

folk philosophy sociology of science; multiple document comprehension; science understanding

Indexed keywords

FOLK PHILOSOPHY/SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; MULTIPLE DOCUMENT COMPREHENSION; MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS; PRESENTATION FORMATS; SCHOOL STUDENTS; SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; SECONDARY SCHOOLS; SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84902671204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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