{"pk":27449,"title":"Emotional and Cognitive Interest: How Creating Situational Interest Affects\nLearning with Multimedia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Situational interest is the positive affect and sustained attention\ntriggered by particular contexts (Hidi & Renninger, 2006).\nSome studies show interesting information enhances learning\nwhile others find it hinders learning, producing the seductive\ndetail effect. Limited evidence suggests the seductive detail\neffect is weakened if emotionally interesting information is\nrelevant to main ideas. The present research shows the\nseductive detail effect occurs only under certain conditions.\nHarp and Mayer (1997) proposed that generating cognitive,\nrather than emotional, interest is more effective for improving\nlearning by cueing relationships among concepts for easier\nprocessing. Hidi and Renninger (2006) argue distinguishing\nbetween the emotional and cognitive might be artificial.\nPresent research found benefits from cognitive interest but no\nsupport as to whether cognitive interest is necessarily a distinct\ntype of interest from emotional interest. There were some\nchallenges with operationalizing cognitive interest, as well as\nvalidating strategies utilized to manipulate cognitive interest\nlevels.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"learning"},{"word":"Instruction"},{"word":"situational interest"},{"word":"cognitive\ninterest"},{"word":"seductive detail effect"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zr8z7sx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yoo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Catrambone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27449/galley/17085/download/"}]}