To Evaluate or to Justify: Do Readers Become Less Likely to Construct a Documents Model After Choosing a Side Among Conflicting Science Texts?

EasyChair Preprint 8605

Abstract

One-hundred and thirteen undergraduates read and recalled two opposing documents on the use of opioids to treat chronic pain. One third were instructed to summarize the texts, another third to evaluate the claims, and the last third to evaluate their personal agreement with the texts. The results suggest that the instructions may have affected the writing task, but not the underlying representation of texts in memory.

Keyphrases: Multiple text, biased model, documents model, evaluation

@booklet{EasyChair:8605,
  author    = {Gaston Saux and Franco Londra and Magalí Martínez and Jean-François Rouet and M. Anne Britt},
  title     = {To Evaluate or to Justify: Do Readers Become Less Likely to Construct a Documents Model After Choosing a Side Among Conflicting Science Texts?},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8605},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}