Curiosity has received increasing attention in the educational literature, yet empirical
investigations have been limited by inconsistent conceptualizations and the use of curiosity …

Studies have shown that learners exposed to interesting and irrelevant information, known
as seductive details, do not perform as much as those who learned without seductive details …

We examine design factors that may evoke positive emotions in learners and investigate the
effects of these positive emotions on learning. Recent research showed that the emotional …

Literacy Beyond Text Comprehension aims to systematically investigate how readers
interpret reading tasks within a situation, and how that interpretation influences reading …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the multimedia learning. Multimedia learning
occurs when a learner builds a mental representation from words and pictures that have …

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and the Science of Instruction, 5th Edition: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers …

Extraneous overload occurs when essential cognitive processing (required to understand
the essential material in a multimedia message) and extraneous cognitive processing …

Previous research into multimedia learning has mainly focused on cognitive factors to
investigate different instructional conditions and design principles. Emotional factors have so …

Seductive details constitute interesting but irrelevant information that are not necessary to
achieve the instructional objective. The seductive detail effect occurs when people learn …

The present study integrates cognitive and affective aspects of media processing in order to
make an argument for reexamining the current cold cognition perspective in multimedia …