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Psychology Major Liam Hart presents at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse
A talk was presented by Liam Hart in July at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse. Liam is a member of the Social Cognition Laboratory which is co-led by Dr. Michael Wolfe and Dr. Todd Williams. In the Summer of 2021, Liam worked on this project as part of the Student Summer Scholars program. Liam’s excellence in leadership and scholarship were recognized by our department and the Provost when he was awarded the Robert Hendersen Leadership and Excellence in a Discipline awards in 2022.
Abstract
Believers and disbelievers in gun control effectiveness wrote a 250 word essay explaining their beliefs after reading a one-sided text that was either consistent or inconsistent with their beliefs. Essays were coded for number of reasons and the presence or absence of a claim, counterargument, text content, policy claim, metacognitive statement, and evaluative statement about the text. Between group differences in essay characteristics and how they relate as a function of belief change are discussed.
Citation:
Hart, L., Wolfe, M., Russell, G., & Williams, T. J. (July, 2022). Belief change after reading predicts argumentative essay content. Paper presented at the 32nd Conference of the Society for Text & Discourse, Virtual.
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