The Power of Fiction: Reading Stories in Abnormal Psychology

We compared the instructional efficacy of a narrative text (i.e., a story) and an expository text (i.e., a textbook excerpt). Students enrolled in Abnormal Psychology classes read about the disorder, dissociative fugue from a story, a textbook, or both. The story contained literary elements that inc...

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Main Authors: Adrian Janit, Georgina Hammock, Deborah Richardson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georgia Southern University 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol5/iss1/16