Refutations in science texts lead to hypercorrection of misconceptions held with high confidence

By M. Loon, John Dunlosky, Tamara van Gog, J. V. van Merriënboer, Anique B. H. de Bruin. 2015

86 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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2. Reinhard Pekrun
3. Gale M. Sinatra
4. Gregory Trevors
5. Philip H. Winne
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In Education

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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4. Philip H. Winne
5. Reinhard Pekrun
6. Thomas Goetz
7. Nathan C. Hall
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Citations in the corpus

• Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect (2016, background): “Rather, van Loon et al. (2015) found that high confidence in science misconceptions that were the subject of refutation texts lead to hypercorrection, wherein refutation texts showed enhanced correction of high-confidence misconceptions compared with both expository texts and low-confidence…”