Refutation texts: Overcoming psychology misconceptions that are resistant to change.

Karla A. Lassonde · Panayiota Kendeou · Edward J. O’Brien

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Prior research has shown that psychological misconceptions have been particularly resistant to revision. In the current set of experiments, refutation texts were developed in the context of the Knowledge Revision Components framework (KReC; Kendeou & O’Brien, 2014) to assess whether they would be ef

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