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    "pk": 27483,
    "title": "Relations Between Intuitive Biological Thought and Scientific Misconceptions",
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    "abstract": "Students enter educational settings with complex and well-established intuitive conceptual understandings of theworld, which have important educational consequences. In biology, intuitive thinking can be characterized in terms of cogni-tive construals (anthropocentric, teleological, and essentialist thinking, Coley & Tanner, 2015). We examined relations betweenintuitive thinking and biological misconceptions, and how formal biology education might influence such relations. 137 bi-ology and non-science majors completed measures of anthropocentric, teleological, and essentialist thinking, and indicatedagreement/disagreement with common misconceptions and explained their responses. Teleological thinking (but not anthro-pocentric or essentialist thinking) predicted teleological misconceptions. Anthropocentric and teleological thinking (but notessentialist thinking) predicted anthropocentric misconceptions. Agreement with essentialist misconceptions was unrelated tointuitive thinking. Similar patterns for non-majors and majors suggests formal biology education may have little influence onrelations between intuitive reasoning and misconceptions. These findings demonstrate a clear impact of intuitive thinking onlearning biology at the university level.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "first_name": "John",
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            "last_name": "Coley",
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            "institution": "Northeastern University",
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            "first_name": "Nicole",
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            "last_name": "Betz",
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            "institution": "Northeastern University",
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            "last_name": "Leffers",
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            "institution": "Northeastern University",
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            "institution": "Northeastern University",
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            "first_name": "Michal",
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            "last_name": "Fux",
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            "institution": "Northeastern University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Kristin",
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            "last_name": "de Nesnera",
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            "institution": "San Francisco State University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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