Dealing with conflicting information from multiple nonlinear texts: Effects of prior attitudes
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Highlights：
• Prior attitudes can bias how students process information in reading and writing tasks.
• Students with strong prior attitudes tended to move away from source texts in their essays.
• Students with strong prior attitudes took stances in their essays.
• Students with neutral attitudes wrote essays with more synthesis and neutral conclusions.
摘要
•Prior attitudes can bias how students process information in reading and writing tasks.•Students with strong prior attitudes tended to move away from source texts in their essays.•Students with strong prior attitudes took stances in their essays.•Students with neutral attitudes wrote essays with more synthesis and neutral conclusions.
论文关键词：Prior attitudes,Conflicting information,Multiple texts,Nonlinear text
论文评审过程：Available online 21 December 2013.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.11.021
