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Egidi, Giovanna; Gerrig, Richard J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In this article, the authors examined readers' sensitivity to the match between characters' goals and characters' actions. In Experiment 1, readers integrated actions consistent with characters' goals more easily when there was a match between the extremeness of the actions and the urgency of the goals. In Experiments 2 and 3, characters'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Reader Text Relationship, Critical Reading