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Erica D. Kessler

Researcher at University of Memphis

Publications -  4
Citations -  39

Erica D. Kessler is an academic researcher from University of Memphis. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Semantics. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 14 citations.

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Individual Differences in Revising (and Maintaining) Accurate and Inaccurate Beliefs about Childhood Vaccinations.

TL;DR: This article examined relationships between several individual differences measures and belief revision after reading a text refuting common misconceptions about childhood vaccinations, and found that individual differences measure and revision were correlated with belief revision.
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Working toward a Theoretical Model for Source Comprehension in Everyday Discourse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that comprehension substantially benefits from attending to, thinking about, and mentally representing the sources of any presented information and that such processes require mental effort and unfortunately pe...
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Self-compassion mindsets can predict statistics course performance via intelligence mindsets and statistics anxiety

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether adopting a self-compassion growth mindset was an antecedent to an intelligence growth mindset, reduced statistics anxiety, and ultimately, lead to better grades.
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The Contributions of Childhood Vaccination Misconceptions to the Evaluation and Sharing of Information from Multiple Internet Texts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of source presence and individual differences on evaluating and sharing information from multiple conflicting Internet texts about the same topic was investigated, in order to better understand the influences of sources' presence and differences.