De Pereyra, G., Britt, M. A., Braasch, J. L. G., & Rouet, J. F. (2014). Reader's memory for information sources in simple news stories: Effects of text and task features. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(2), 187-204.
De Pereyra, G.; Britt, M.; Braasch, J.; Rouet, J.
2014
De Pereyra, G., Britt, M. A., Braasch, J. L. G., & Rouet, J. F. (2014). Reader's memory for information sources in simple news stories: Effects of text and task features. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(2), 187-204.
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Two experiments examined readers’ memory for information sources in short news stories. Based on current theories of text comprehension, we assumed that sources involved in the situation described (e.g. a witness or a participant) would be better remembered than remote sources (e.g. someone commenting on the topic from a distance). We additionally tested the assumption that less plausible stories would enhance readers’ memory for remote information sources. Experiment 1 found that readers remembered sources involved in the situation better than remote sources. Although sources of less plausible stories were not better remembered than sources of more plausible stories, implausible details were. In Experiment 2, source-focusing instructions increased readers memory for sources but did not affect the overall pattern of effects. We discuss the findings with respect to theories of text comprehension and knowledge elaboration. We conclude that comprehension theories and task-oriented reading theories can be extended to account for the encoding of source as well as content information
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