Ironic effects of drawing attention to story errors

Ironic effects of drawing attention to story errors.

Readers learn errors embedded in fictional stories and use them to answer later general knowledge questions (Marsh, Meade, & Roediger, 2003). Suggestibility is robust and occurs even when story errors contradict well-known facts. The current study evaluated whether suggestibility is linked to participants' inability to judge story content as correct versus incorrect. Specifically, participants ...

Drawing Attention to the Dangerous

In this paper we present an architecture of attention-based control for artificial agents. The agent is responsible for monitoring adaptively the user in order to detect context switches in his state. Assuming a successful detection appropriate action will be taken. Simulation results based on a simple scenario show that Attention is an appropriate mechanism for implementing context switch dete...

The Role of Repression in the Incidence of Ironic Errors

The role of repression in the incidence of ironic errors was investigated on a golf task. Coping styles of novice golfers were determined using measures of cognitive anxiety and physiological arousal. Following baseline putts, participants (n = 58) performed a competition putt with the opportunity to win UK£50 (approx. US$100). Before completing the competition putt participants were instructed...

RUNNING HEAD : Errors in drawing The genesis of errors in drawing

The ironic effects of weight stigma