The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency

By Adam L. Alter. 2013

97 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/397f156ba8619a7bf65bac2ddd5a880cfb1b0ad4

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. S. D’Mello
2. A. Graesser
3. Constantinos Hadjichristidis
4. Amber Chauncey Strain
5. Luca Surian
6. Sara M. Fulmer
7. Janet Geipel
8. David B. Miele

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. D’Mello
2. A. Graesser
3. Constantinos Hadjichristidis
4. Luca Surian
5. Sara M. Fulmer
6. Janet Geipel

Citations in the corpus

• How foreign language shapes moral judgment (2015, background): “The correct answer is “can’t say” (since the biblical character was Noah), but most people are unable to override the automatic response “two” (Alter, 2013).”
• Interest-based text preference moderates the effect of text difficulty on engagement and learning (2015, background): “The desirable difficulties address this by reconfiguring the task context to engender deeper processing (Alter, 2013).”