The influence of story consistency and reading context on the construction of documents models from multiple sources

Jean-François Rouet (1) , M. Anne Britt (2) , Loïc Caroux (1) , Clément Nivet (1) , Ludovic Le Bigot (1)

1 CeRCA [Poitiers] - Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295]
2 Northern Illinois University

Two experiments investigated the role of story consistency and reading context on readers' encoding of source information in short news reports. Based on the Documents Model framework (Britt et al., 1999), we hypothesized that readers would be more likely to encode source information when (a) the news reports included discrepant statements and (b) the task directions focused readers' attention on the consistency of the report. Experiment 1 examined those assumptions in the context of a summarization task; experiment 2 attempted to demonstrate the impact of task and story features on readers' recognition of source information. Both experiments were being conducted at the time of submission.

Domaines: Psychologie

Jean-François Rouet, M. Anne Britt, Loïc Caroux, Clément Nivet, Ludovic Le Bigot. The influence of story consistency and reading context on the construction of documents models from multiple sources. 13th Biennial International Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, EARLI 2009, Aug 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨hal-01470833⟩