With logical structure held constant, proximity improves accuracy of low-achieving participants by 28%¶

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q2 i? In a controlled lab experiment, proximal questions improved accuracy among low-achieving participants but not high-achieving participants, with identical logical structure across versions. → Britt Hadar 2023

Evidence¶

Britt Hadar 2023¶

Britt Hadar, Maayan Katzir, Sephi Pumpian, Tzur Karelitz and Nira Liberman. (2023). Psychological proximity improves reasoning in academic aptitude tests. npj Science of Learning 8:10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00158-x

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Lab experiment (N = 129 undergraduates; 112 with both covariates) using AAT questions rewritten in proximal/distal versions with the same logical structure, distance between participants. The printed interaction (B = 0.536, p = 0.022) indicated the proximal advantage among low achievers only.

"an interaction between distance and AAT score, B = 0.536, SE = 0.235, z = 2.28, p = 0.022, indicated an advantage of proximal questions over distal questions among low-achieving participants but not among high-achieving participants."

Britt Hadar 2023 (2)¶

Britt Hadar, Maayan Katzir, Sephi Pumpian, Tzur Karelitz and Nira Liberman. (2023). Psychological proximity improves reasoning in academic aptitude tests. npj Science of Learning 8:10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00158-x

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Descriptive means from the same Study 2 experiment: for below-average-AAT participants, "accuracy with proximal questions ( M = 0.50) was 28% higher than with distal questions ( M = 0.39)"; no effect size was printed for this contrast.

"The effect of distance for participants with below-average AAT score was quite sizeable: accuracy with proximal questions ( M = 0.50) was 28% higher than with distal questions ( M = 0.39)"

Discussion¶

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