Extending the Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations Effect to Popular Articles about Educational Topics

Autor/inn/en	Im, Soo-hyun; Varma, Keisha; Varma, Sashank
Titel	Extending the Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations Effect to Popular Articles about Educational Topics
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87 (2017) 4, S.518-534 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Im, Soo-hyun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-0998
DOI	10.1111/bjep.12162
Schlagwörter	Neurosciences; Journal Articles; Educational Research; Cognitive Psychology; Credibility; Persuasive Discourse; Individual Differences; Concept Formation; Knowledge Level; Public Opinion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neuroscience; Neurowissenschaften; Neurowissenschaft; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Kognitive Psychologie; Glaubwürdigkeit; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Individueller Unterschied; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Wissensbasis; Öffentliche Meinung
Abstract	Background: The "seductive allure of neuroscience explanations" (SANE) is the finding that people overweight psychological arguments when framed in terms of neuroscience findings. Aim: This study extended this finding to arguments concerning the application of psychological findings to educational topics. Sample Participants (n = 320) were recruited from the general public, specifically among English-speaking Amazon Mechanical Turk workers residing in the United States. Methods: We developed eight articles that orthogonally varied two processes (learning vs. development) with two disciplines (cognitive vs. affective psychology). We increased "neuroscience framing" across four levels: psychological finding alone, with an extraneous neuroscience finding (verbal), with an extraneous neuroscience finding (verbal) and graph, and with an extraneous neuroscience finding (verbal) and brain image. Participants were randomly assigned to one level of neuroscience framing and rated the credibility of each article's argument. Results: Seductive allure of neuroscience explanations effects were not ubiquitous. Extraneous verbal neuroscience framings, either alone or accompanied by graphs, did not influence the credibility of the application of psychological findings to educational topics. However, there was a SANE effect when educational articles were accompanied by both extraneous verbal neuroscience findings and brain images. This effect persisted even after controlling for individual differences in familiarity with education, attitude towards psychology, and knowledge of neuroscience. Conclusion: The results suggest that there is a SANE effect for articles about educational topics among the general public when they are accompanied by both extraneous verbal neuroscience findings and brain images. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01