Publications

Ihme, N., & Wittwer, J. (2015). The role of consistency, order, and structure in evaluating and comprehending competing scientific explanations. Instructional Science, 43, 507-526.

Wittwer, J., & Ihme, N. (2014). Reading skill moderates the impact of semantic similarity and causal specificity on the coherence of explanations. Discourse Processes, 51, 143-166.

Conference Contributions:

Wittwer, J., & Stadtler, M. (2013, August). Comprehending and evaluating expository texts with contradictions. Symposium at the 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Munich, Germany.

Wittwer, J., Wahl, N. (2013, August). Effects of presentation order and text structure in processing inconsistent explanations. Talk in the Symposium “Comprehending and evaluating expository texts with contradictions”. 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Munich, Germany.

Ihme, N. & Wittwer, J. (2012, September). Der Einfluss semantischer und kausaler Verbundenheit auf das Verstehen und Bewerten wissenschaftlicher Erklärungen. Vortrag auf dem 48. Kongress der DGPs, Bielefeld, Deutschland.

Wittwer, J., & Ihme, N. (2012, May). The role of causality for the plausibility of scientific explanations. Talk at the Meeting on “Comprehension and validation of information – two separate stages of information processing?”, Kassel, Germany.

Wittwer, J., Ihme, N. (2011, June). What accounts for explantory preferences?. Talk at the DFG-NSF Conference Public Understanding and Public Engagement with Science. New York City, NY, USA.