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Robert Prettner; Hedwig te Molder; Jeffrey D. Robinson – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
Communication-intervention strategies for reducing vaccine hesitancy have been primarily based on survey and interview data. Virtually absent is an understanding of how vaccine hesitancy is organized interactionally in its primary, natural environment of medical consultations between parents and healthcare providers. This article uses conversation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Child Health, Preventive Medicine
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Stadtler, Marc; Scharrer, Lisa; Skodzik, Timo; Bromme, Rainer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Understanding conflicts between sources is an inherent part of science text comprehension. We examined whether readers' memories for conflicts and their situational interpretation of conflicts would be affected by reading goals and lexical cue phrases that signal rhetorical relationships. To this end, 198 undergraduates read multiple documents on…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Conflict, Memory, Rhetoric
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Scharrer, Lisa; Britt, M. Anne; Stadtler, Marc; Bromme, Rainer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Well-educated laypeople tend to rely on their own ability to evaluate scientific claims when they obtain information from texts with high comprehensibility. The present study investigated whether controversial content reduces this facilitating effect of high text comprehensibility on readers' self-reliance and whether the influence of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Readability, Medicine, Reading Materials