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Television Is Still “Easy” and Print Is Still “Tough”? More Than 30 Years of Research on the Amount of Invested Mental Effort

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018
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Title
Television Is Still “Easy” and Print Is Still “Tough”? More Than 30 Years of Research on the Amount of Invested Mental Effort
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01098
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Authors

Frank Schwab, Christine Hennighausen, Dorothea C. Adler, Astrid Carolus

Abstract

We provide a literature overview of 30 years of research on the amount of invested mental effort (AIME, Salomon, 1984), illuminating relevant literature in this field. Since the introduction of AIME, this concept appears to have vanished. To obtain a clearer picture of where the theory of AIME has diffused, we conducted a literature search focusing on the period 1985-2015. We examined scientific articles (N = 244) that cite Salomon (1984) and content-analyzed their keywords. Based on these keywords, we identified seven content clusters: affect and motivation, application fields, cognition and learning, education and teaching, media technology, learning with media technology, and methods. We present selected works of each content cluster and describe in which research field the articles had been published. Results indicate that AIME was most commonly (but not exclusively) referred to in the area of educational psychology indicating its importance regarding learning and education, thereby investigating print and TV, as well as new media. From a methodological perspective, research applied various research methods (e.g., longitudinal studies, experimental designs, theoretical analysis) and samples (e.g., children, college students, low income families). From these findings, the importance of AIME for further research is discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 44 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 20%
Researcher 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 18 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 20%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Linguistics 2 5%
Computer Science 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 20 45%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2019.
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#6,513,948
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#9,551
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#113,559
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#326
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