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Lawson, Alyssa P.; Mayer, Richard E.; Adamo-Villani, Nicoletta; Benes, Bedrich; Lei, Xingyu; Cheng, Justin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The positivity principle states that people learn better from instructors who display positive emotions rather than negative emotions. In two experiments, students viewed a short video lecture on a statistics topic in which an instructor stood next to a series of slides as she lectured and then they took either an immediate test (Experiment 1) or…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Video Technology, Lecture Method, Statistics Education