A Review of Research and a Meta-Analysis of the Seductive Detail Effect.

By Günter Daniel Rey. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “…Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas and Secord, 1983; McClure, 2002; McClure and Hilton, 1997, 1998; McClure, Sutton, and Hilton, 2003; Malle, 1999, 2004, 2011; Rey, 2012; Royce, 1963; Sloman, 1994; Swartout, 1987; Vasilyeva, Wilkenfeld, and Lombrozo, 2016; Vasilyeva and Lombrozo, 2015)”
Effects of the Physical Environment on Cognitive Load and Learning: Towards a New Model of Cognitive Load (2014, background): “The seductive details or coherence effect (Moreno and Mayer 2000; Plass et al. 2013; Rey 2012; Um et al. 2012; for a review, see Rey 2014), for example, refers to the interference from adjuncts that are not essential to achieve the learning goal, but nonetheless, these adjuncts (e.”
Who Benefits from Diagrams and Illustrations in Math Problems? Ability and Attitudes Matter (2018, background): “Indeed, a recent meta-analysis (Rey, 2012) of 39 experimental effects revealed a significant negative effect of seductive details, both for memory retention and for transfer.”
Decorative pictures and emotional design in multimedia learning (2016, background): “Although decorative pictures lack on information concerning the learning tasks, they are examined to have only less to detrimental effects on learning in literature (Rey, 2012, 2014; Sung & Mayer, 2012).”
Meta-Analysis of Emotional Designs in Multimedia Learning: A Replication and Extension Study (2020, background): “However, we caution against providing designs that are not aligned with the learning objectives, as those could include seductive details that distract students and have a deleterious effect on learning (Wang and Adesope 2017; Harp and Mayer 1998; Rey 2012).”
Keep it Coherent: A Meta-Analysis of the Seductive Details Effect (2020, background): “Almost twice as many studies investigating the seductive details effect have been published since the meta-analysis by Rey (2012), which warranted a reevaluation of the seductive details effect.”