A5045305880- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Media Influence and Health
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- AI in Service Interactions
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Media and Politics
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien
2019-2025
University of Tübingen
2015-2024
Chemnitz University of Technology
2023
German Institute for Adult Education
2017-2020
Ruhr University Bochum
2019
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
2007-2011
Medico-Academic Consultings (Germany)
2008
Abstract Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of best available evidence, especially during crises. However, recent years epistemic authority science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public scientists. We interrogated these with a preregistered 68-country survey 71,922 respondents and found that most countries, people agree should engage more society policymaking. variations between within...
Abstract Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, distrust populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science society. To help researchers analyse science-society nexus across different geographical cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in dataset of 71,922 participants 68 countries. The data were...
There are still unanswered questions concerning the optimal design of educational videos, for instance with regard to visibility a talking head next learning content. Although visible heads in videos may stimulate deeper processing, they can also distract from visual The current eye tracking study investigated how presented stepwise appearing (i.e., animated) graphic-based content affected learners' movements, learning, and ratings (e.g., social presence). Ninety-six university students...
Narrative comprehension, a cognitive skill essential for social participation, relies on range of abilities, including memory and inference-making. While aging-related changes are well-documented, research narrative comprehension in aging populations yields mixed findings, underscoring the importance this study. This preregistered study examines how age, education, presentation format (i.e., narrative’s codality: pictorial vs. textual) influence inference generation older adults (N = 143,...
Humans understand text and film by mentally representing their contents in situation models. These describe situations using dimensions like time, location, protagonist, action. Changes 1 or more (e.g., a new character enters the scene) cause discontinuities story line are often perceived as boundaries between 2 meaningful units. Recent theoretical advances event perception led to assumption that models represented form of working memory. updated at boundaries. Points time which important:...
AbstractSurveys worldwide show that the public perceives artificial intelligence (AI) as a double-edged sword: A risk and an opportunity. However, how this ambiguous perception of AI is related to people's willingness use AI-based applications has yet be investigated. To end, two online experiments were conducted, including samples, N = 246 495 (quota-sample, representative for age gender). As hypothesized, risk-opportunity correlated positively with probability using AI. Exploratory...
Abstract The plot of a narrative is represented in the form event models working memory. Because only parts are actually presented and information continually changing, comprehenders have to infer good portion keep their mental representation updated. Research has identified two related processes (e.g., Gernsbacher, 1997): During model construction (shifting, laying foundation) at large coherence breaks an completely built anew. updating (mapping ) smaller omissions, however, current...
Boundaries between meaningful events are key moments in comprehending human action. At these points, viewers may focus on the event's contents at expense of other information. We tested whether visual detection was impaired those perceivers judged to be boundaries events. Short animated football clips were used as stimulus material, and event imposed by having ball change possession. In a first experiment, we found that possession changes perceived boundaries. second participants asked keep...
Over the last years, and especially in context of COVID-19 pandemic, online videos have become an integral part education. Therefore, it is essential to understand how design such provide efficient engaging learning experience for viewers. Regarding success, occurrence mind wandering particular relevance. Thus, this preregistered research investigates perception by analyzing relationship between viewer behavior (such as pause button presses), wandering, event segmentation employing logfiles...
Dynamic events can be perceived at different levels of granularity, with coarser contexts (e.g., “morning routine”) requiring more conceptual integration than finer “having breakfast”). We investigated whether this increased yields abstract mental representations (i.e., fewer perceptual details) across three experiments. In these experiments, participants encoded (presented via text or video) in coarse- fine-grained and then matched to corresponding stimuli. Our results indicated that coarse...
This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate it with others, identifies cross-country differences, tests the extent to which economic sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are most used sources of in countries, except those democratic-corporatist systems where news tend be more widely. People collectivist societies less outspoken daily life, whereas low education is associated higher...
Navigating what is true and not increasingly challenging in today’s world of fake news alternative facts. Misinformation can spread rapidly, often unintentionally, leading people to believe inaccurate information. Our research investigated how two competing causal information encountered at different times during an event description affect memory that event. first experiment (N = 67) found a misleading post-event effect (correct first; incorrect second) with written texts (rather than...
This research investigates the influence of visual cues, specifically motion lines, on agent advantage effect in still pictures. The refers to human observers responding faster someone performing an action (called agent) compared person or thing acted upon (patient). We investigated how presence lines behind patient impacts effect. presented participants with pictures showing two fish, one fish biting other. Participants searched for and pressed corresponding button, their reaction time was...
This research investigates the influence of visual cues, specifically motion lines, on agent advantage effect in still pictures. The refers to human observers responding faster someone performing an action (called agent) compared person or thing acted upon (patient). We investigated how presence lines behind patient impacts effect. presented participants with pictures showing two fish, one fish biting other. Participants searched for and pressed corresponding button, their reaction time was...
Narrative comprehension involves deriving meaning from information and constructing a mental representation of narrative's components. It conveys knowledge, information, explanations, playing crucial role in everyday life. Inferencing – is one the key processes narrative comprehension. While cognitive changes associated with aging are well-documented, research on inferencing older adults remains inconclusive, highlighting need for further study. Despite being ever-present modern life, stress...
Summary The present study combined the approaches of multimedia learning and comparative visual search (Hardiess, Gillner, & Mallot, 2008) in order to analyse processing spatially separated information. Participants were asked compare two depictions a mechanical pendulum clock detect no, one, or differences between them. spatial distance was varied, participants received either stimulus‐related information about functionalities clocks stimulus‐unrelated design cuckoo clocks. demonstrates...
A substantial literature shows that public polarization over climate change in the U.S. is most pronounced among science literate. dominant explanation for this phenomenon literacy amplifies motivated reasoning, tendency to interpret evidence such it confirms prior beliefs. The present study tests biasing account of a population investigated both interpretation and repeated belief-updating. Results replicated typical correlational pattern political as function literacy. However, results...