Hi Miguel: here is the citation: Kowalski, P., & Taylor, A. K. (2017). Reducing students’ misconceptions with refutational teaching: For long-term retention, verbal ability matters. *Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, *No Pagination Specified.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/stl0000082 <http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/stl0000082>
This goes along with some other studies that show that if you diminish processing resources in any way during a retraction of misinformation, you are unlikely to succeed with the retraction. Whatever you say first, is what sticks. In psychology this sort of goes along with very many findings where someone makes a splashy finding and then no one can replicate it but the finding makes it into textbooks and psychological lore. Sigh. So, first of all: if you want to change students' prior misconceptions you have to address them. But the trick is not to OVERdo addressing the misconception, and not start with the misconception because once students hear it they stop processing. The trick is that you have to mention the misconception because JUST telling what is right never gets at removing the prior misinformation. The two pieces of information live happily together in memory, (c.f., people behave more unusually during a full moon along with what you tell them in class that this is confirmation bias that is fun but unsupported by studies that show no differences in arrest numbers or emergency room activity; however, a slight uptick during a new moon, when it's darker out so (a) criminals are less visible and (b) people stumble around in the dark and hurt themselves) and since misconceptions are more likely to be repeated and become familiarized, so you must bring up the misconception BRIEFLY and refute. Avoid focusing too much on the misconception, as that again makes it familiar. It helps to start with a warning: You may have heard some people say that.... and then just mention it briefly and tell students WHY it's wrong. A lot of this goes along with some of the literature on persuasion in general. So start with why right = right; brief myth; then go with why wrong = wrong. As soon as there is a full release, I will post a website url for a global organization that is going to provide resources to debunk all kinds of scientific babble and ways to combat the post-truth world. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 921210 tay...@sandiego.edu On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> wrote: > TIPS Digest for Sunday, June 18, 2017. > > 1. RE: Re: > > tips digest: June 16, 2017 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: RE: Re:tips digest: June 16, 2017 > From: Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:31:10 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Annette, I think you are correct about publishing in top-tier journals, > but the science publishing industry is rapidly evolving (devolving?) and > other publishing models have appeared (PLOS, eLife ( > https://elifesciences.org/about), F1000research ( > https://f1000research.com/) that give authors more control over their > work and that may ultimately pose a challenge to the status quo. > > BTW, I was curious in Mike's question and found the following blurb dated > from 2014: "The sale and licensing of APA publications and databases is by > far the largest source of revenue, generating nearly $86 million annually", > http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/ceo.aspx. > > Back to Annette: Could you tell us more about what you published? > Inquiring minds want to know! > > Miguel > > ________________________________________ > From: Annette Taylor [tay...@sandiego.edu] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 6:58 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re:[tips] tips digest: June 16, 2017 > > I just published a paper in a APA journal this month and was told that I > could post the final page proofs but not a PDF of the article. I have all > my career faced the reality that my work is not MY work. If I want to > publish in a top tier or mainstream journal I have to give away my work, > for free, so someone else can make lots of money from it. This contributes > to the general societal misperception that we academics are all rich from > all the royalties we get from our publications. Hahahahahahahaha. > > Annette > > Sent from my iPad > So no signature lines > > > On Jun 15, 2017, at 10:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > (TIPS) digest <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> wrote: > > > > TIPS Digest for Friday, June 16, 2017. > > > > 1. Take Down That Article! Love, APA > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Subject: Take Down That Article! Love, APA > > From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> > > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:49:01 -0400 > > X-Message-Number: 1 > > > > Publish and being bullied about it. Out APA is telling authors of > > its journal article that they have to take the published versions of > > their published journal articles. Yes, we have to agree to give > > APA the copyright and control over the final product but some > > of this is getting tiresome. 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