Learning facts from fiction.

By Elizabeth J. Marsh, Michelle L Meade, H. Roediger III. 2003

254 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008, background): “The work ofMarsh and her colleagues has also demonstrated that people can adopt incorrect information from stories, although this work does not pertain to social knowledge specifically (Marsh & Fazio, 2006; Marsh et al., 2003).”
Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences (2014, background): “Fictional narratives often contain elements within them that are truthful (58), and individuals readily use information from fictional stories to answer questions about the world (59, 60).”
The Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework (2021, background): “Readers tend to be quite susceptible to inaccurate information and often lack the critical reasoning skills to notice or correct potential inaccuracies during encoding (Marsh et al., 2003; Rapp, 2016; Rapp & Braasch, 2014; Singer, 2013).”
Can’t We Just Disregard Fake News? The Consequences of Exposure to Inaccurate Information (2018, background): “Participants are more likely to provide inaccurate responses after reading inaccurate content than after reading accurate or neutral content (e.g., Hinze, Slaten, Horton, Jenkins, & Rapp, 2014; Marsh & Fazio, 2006; Marsh et al., 2003).”
Persuasive Effects of Fictional Narratives Increase Over Time (2007, unknown): “Shortly after reading a fictional narrative, readers are usually able to attribute information correctly to the story source, whereas the accuracy of such attributions declines after a delay, eg, 1 week ( Marsh, Meade, & Roediger, 2003 ), a pattern of results indicating either a fast decay or dissoc”