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Tobias Richter

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ID112072
NAMETobias Richter
GIVEN NAMESTobias
FAMILY NAMERichter
SIGNATURERICHTER T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Würzburg
ORCID0000-0002-0467-9044
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS71
TOTAL CITATIONS240
AUTHOR COUNT71
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9
  • Maintaining the outcomes of meaningful learning

    Open Access•Julian Roelle, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Learning and Instruction•2026

  • Training rational thinking

    Open Access•Johanna Grimm, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Learning and Instruction•2026

    Background General rational thinking skills are defined as the ability to override heuristic thinking by initiating and carrying out systematic thinking processes. Previous studies have identified rational thinking as a positive predictor of academic performance in higher education. Aims In two preregistered experiments, we examined the effects of a brief targeted rational thinking training on students’ general rational thinking skills and their …

  • Narrativity and its effects on reading experiences, empathy, and intergroup attitudes

    Open Access•Marieke Klöppel, M Appel et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Aesthetics…•2026

    According to various theoretical approaches, stories provide the opportunity to enhance empathy and intergroup attitudes.In two preregistered online experiments with U.S.-based participants recruited via an online panel, we examined how narrativity affects the impact of a graphic narrative on reading processes, empathy, and intergroup attitudes.In Experiment 1 (N 5 781), narrativity was manipulated by moving the climax from the end to the beginni…

  • Mind wandering during first- and foreign-language reading

    Open Access•Marina Klimovich, Jean‐françois Rouet et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2026

    This research investigated whether individual differences in vocabulary knowledge influence mind wandering during first language (L1) and foreign language (L2) reading. In four independent studies involving different L1 and L2 pairings – German and English (Study 1), French and English (Study 2), English and German (Study 3), and German and French (Study 4) – participants completed measures of mind-wandering frequency, perceived reading difficult…

  • Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis

    Jan Lenhart, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Psychology of Aesthetics…•2025

  • Plausible or problematic? Evaluating logical fallacies in a scientific text

    Open Access•Simon P Tiffin‐Richards, Hannes Münchow et al.•ARTICLE•Thinking & Reasoning•2025

    Informal arguments are integral to socioscientific discourse. However, even university students often struggle to judge the plausibility of arguments accurately. We investigated whether strategic reanalysis while reading, i.e., looking back and rereading parts of a text, predicts the likelihood of detecting and processing implausible arguments. In two experiments, participants’ eye movements were recorded while they read arguments embedded in an …

  • Rational thinking in university students

    Open Access•Johanna Grimm, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•European Journal of Psychology of…•2025

    Given the high degree of autonomy and epistemic competencies required for university learning, students need the ability to make rational decisions rather than relying on heuristics and intuition. Previous cross-sectional findings indicate positive relations between rational thinking and university academic outcomes, but longitudinal research is lacking. This study aimed to investigate the predictive value of rational thinking for university acad…

  • Lasting benefits of a web-based training in understanding informal arguments

    Open Access•Andreas G Wertgen, Hannes Münchow et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Psychology of…•2025

    Being able to comprehend informal arguments in scientific texts is important for scientific literacy in higher education. Successful intervention studies demonstrating that these skills can be trained in university students have not yet provided evidence that gains of explicit training can be maintained beyond immediate post-training assessment. In this study, we tested whether the gains in argument structure comprehension achieved using a self-d…

  • Development of the retrieval of word meanings and its impact on reading comprehension throughout elementary school

    Open Access•Patrick Dahdah, Johannes Naumann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational Psychology•2025

  • Assessing vocabulary of bilingual German-Turkish preschool children

    Open Access•Madlen Mangold, Wolfgang Lenhard et al.•ARTICLE•Bilingualism Language and Cognition•2024

    The vocabulary of bilingual children is determined by various linguistic factors that develop depending on the language input and individual factors of these children. To understand vocabulary development and to be able to support these children accordingly, the assessment instruments essentially need to be adapted to this individual process. The current study examined factors influencing productive vocabulary performance by means of explanatory …

  • Improving word reading skills of low‐skilled readers

    Open Access•Janina Heß, Panagiotis Karageorgos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer Assisted…•2024

  • Learning as an epistemic activity / El aprendizaje como actividad epistémica

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Simon P Tiffin‐Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Study of…•2024

    The life-long acquisition of knowledge is a major research topic in educational psychology. Many approaches based on the idea of learning as information processing treat learning primarily as the expansion of knowledge and the enrichment of existing knowledge structures with new information. In this article, we argue for a slightly different conceptualization of learning as an epistemic activity. Our proposal builds on the classical cognitive vie…

  • Differential Switch Costs in Typically Achieving Children and Children With Mathematical Difficulties

    Open Access•Darius Endlich, Wolfgang Lenhard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Learning Disabilities•2024

    Children with mathematical difficulties need to spend more time than typically achieving children on solving even simple equations. Since these tasks already require a larger share of their cognitive resources, additional demands imposed by the need to switch between tasks may lead to a greater decline of performance in children with mathematical difficulties. We explored differential task switch costs with respect to switching between addition v…

  • Metacognitive training can reduce mindless reading

    Open Access•Marina Klimovich, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational Psychology•2024

  • Document language moderates the text-belief consistency effect

    Open Access•Lisa Pilotek, Mohammad N Karimi et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2024•References: 45

    When researching socioscientific topics, particularly on the Internet, readers face multiple texts that they must integrate into a coherent mental model.Previous research in monolingual settings has found that comprehension is biased toward readers' prior beliefs (text-belief consistency effect).Considering that the Internet is multilingual, this experiment focused on the influence of document language on the text-belief consistency effect.Assumi…

  • The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion

    Open Access•Julia R Winkler, M Appel et al.•ARTICLE•Media Psychology•2023

    Recent theory on narrative processes suggests that changes in recipients’ emotional responses (emotional shifts) are characteristic of immersed story processing and precursors of narrative impact. In two experiments and a pilot study, a novel self-probed emotional retrospection task was used to measure emotional shifts. We examined the link between transportation and emotional shifts and the association of these processes with story-consistent at…

  • Promoting students’ argument comprehension and evaluation skills

    Open Access•Hannes Münchow, Simon P Tiffin‐Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissensch…•2023

    The ability to comprehend and evaluate informal arguments is important for making sense of scientific texts and scientific reasoning. However, university students often lack the skills necessary to comprehend the functional structure and evaluate the structural plausibility of informal arguments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two training interventions to a) improve students’ argument comprehension (identification of …

  • Belief-biased representations of textual information in bilinguals

    Open Access•Mohammad N Karimi, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2023

    When pursuing a controversial socio-scientific issue, readers are expected to construct balanced representations that include overlapping and opposing information. However, readers’ mental representations are often biased towards their prior beliefs. Previous research on such text-belief consistency effects have been conducted mostly in monolingual contexts. The present study investigated whether document language, as a source characteristic, mod…

  • Here I sit, making men in my own image

    Open Access•David J Franz, Wolfgang Lenhard et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2023

    Teacher’s evaluation of students is sometimes negatively affected by diagnostic labels. We explored such negative effects caused by the labels “dyscalculia”, “dyslexia”, and “ADHD” in teacher students. In Experiment 1, we varied the presence of the dyscalculia and dyslexia label in vignettes between participants. The dyslexia but not the dyscalculia label had a negative effect on participant’s academic expectations. In our preregistered Experimen…

  • Does speed‐reading training work, and if so, why? Effects of speed‐reading training and metacognitive training on reading speed, comprehension and eye movements

    Open Access•Marina Klimovich, Simon P Tiffin‐Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Reading•2023

    Background Commercial speed‐reading training programs are typically marketed with the promise to dramatically increase reading speed without impairing comprehension. From the perspective of reading psychology, it seems quite unlikely that speed‐reading training can indeed have such effects. However, research on the effectiveness of modern speed‐reading training programs on reading performance in typical readers is sparse. The present study had tw…

  • Distinguishing between struggling and skilled readers based on their prosodic speech patterns in oral reading

    Open Access•Panagiotis Karageorgos, Sebastian Wallot et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Psychologica•2023

    The purpose of this study was to examine if prosodic patterns in oral reading derived from Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) could distinguish between struggling and skilled German readers in Grades 2 (n = 67) and 4 (n = 69). Furthermore, we investigated whether models estimated with RQA measures outperformed models estimated with prosodic features derived from prosodic transcription. According to the findings, struggling second graders ap…

  • The Tcec Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

    Hojjat Darabi, Tobias Richter et al.•CHAPTER•The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic…•2023

    The ‘hilly flanks’ of the Zagros in the eastern Fertile Crescent (EFC) were the first area explicitly targeted for investigating the emergence of agriculture and sedentary life starting in the late 1940s. The subsequent concentration of research on the Levant and Anatolia suggested that early Neolithic innovations initially emerged in the western and central areas of the Fertile Crescent. However, renewed work in the central Zagros has once again…

  • Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion

    Open Access•Marie-Luise C R Schmidt, Julia R Winkler et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2023•References: 52

    Emotional shifts in stories are assumed to contribute to narrative persuasion by enhancing engagement with the story. This effect might depend on the congruency of audiences' emotional experience to the emotions implied by the story. In two experiments with wellcontrolled story manipulations, we compared the persuasive effect of stories with shifts in valence (from positive to negative to positive) to continuously positive story versions and exam…

  • Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension

    Open Access•Johanna Abendroth, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    Readers often prioritize processing and comprehension of information perceived as relevant to a particular intention. Using a repeated-measurement study, we investigated how readers’ prior beliefs and external reading perspectives influence processing and comprehension of belief-relevant texts on two socioscientific controversies. University students read belief-relevant texts from a belief-consistent perspective in one experimental session and f…

  • The Natufian of the Azraq Basin

    Tobias Richter, L Maher et al.•CHAPTER•Natufian Foragers in the Levant•2022

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  • The Pre-Natufian Epipaleolithic

    Open Access•L Maher, Lisa A Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Evolutionary Anthropology Issues…•2012•Cited by: 62•References: 63

    Few cultural developments have taken on as much archeological significance as when people began living in villages and producing their own food. The economic, social, technological, and ideological transformations immediately preceding and following these changes were profound. Early models of culture change associated with pre-agricultural societies of the Levant focused on the sudden, late origin of settled farming villages triggered by climate…

  • You don't have to believe everything you read

    Tobias Richter, Sascha Schroeder et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2009•Cited by: 28

    In social cognition, knowledge-based validation of information is usually regarded as relying on strategic and resource-demanding processes. Research on language comprehension, in contrast, suggests that validation processes are involved in the construction of a referential representation of the communicated information. This view implies that individuals can use their knowledge to validate incoming information in a routine and efficient manner. …

  • Validation and Comprehension of Text Information

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2015•Cited by: 21•References: 57

    In psychological research, the comprehension of linguistic information and the knowledge-based assessment of its validity are often regarded as two separate stages of information processing. Recent findings in psycholinguistics and text comprehension research call this two-stage model into question. In particular, validation can affect comprehension outcomes, and the comprehension process involves a routine and early validation of the communicate…

  • Interaction before Agriculture

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Andrew Garrard et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Archaeological Journal•2011•Cited by: 20

    This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and are often considered to represent typical hallmarks of emergent farming societies. The hunter-gatherers of the final Pleistocene, in particular those of the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic, have more rarely been the focus of such discussion…

  • New Light on Final Pleistocene Settlement Diversity in the Azraq Basin (Jordan)

    Tobias Richter, Samantha Allcock et al.•ARTICLE•Paléorient•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 11

    Les fouilles du site daté de l’Épipaléolithique ancien de ‘ Ayn Qasiyya dans l’oasis d’Azraq (Est de la Jordanie) fournissent des données nouvelles et importantes pour notre compréhension des causes de la sédentarisation, des effets écologiques sur l’évolution culturelle, des pratiques funéraires et des relations sociales en Asie du Sud-Ouest à la fi n du Pléistocène. Cet article présente un résumé du travail sur ce site et il fournit les résulta…

  • Does Validation During Language Comprehension Depend on an Evaluative Mindset

    Open Access•Maj-Britt Isberner, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 54

    Whether information is routinely and nonstrategically evaluated for truth during comprehension is still a point of contention. Previous studies supporting the assumption of nonstrategic validation have used a Stroop-like paradigm in which participants provided yes/no judgments in tasks unrelated to the truth or plausibility of the experimental sentences. Other studies using a nonevaluative task failed to support this assumption. This leaves open …

  • What Is Wrong With Anova and Multiple Regression? Analyzing Sentence Reading Times With Hierarchical Linear Models

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2006•Cited by: 12•References: 29

    Most reading time studies using naturalistic texts yield data sets characterized by a multilevel structure: Sentences (sentence level) are nested within persons (person level). In contrast to analysis of variance and multiple regression techniques, hierarchical linear models take the multilevel structure of reading time data into account. They provide methods to estimate variance components and to model the influence of predictor variables on dif…

  • Shubayqa 6

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA; c. 9600-8500 cal BC) period in the Levant provides the earliest confirmed evidence for plant cultivation anywhere in the world, marking a significant escalation in the human management of plants towards fully fledged agricultural food production. Until now, the majority of PPNA sites have been documented in the Jordan Valley, the Wadi Araba and farther north along the Upper Euphrates (e.g. Mureybet, Jerf el-Ahma…

  • Similarity matters

    Matthias Brunmair, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Psychological Bulletin•2019•Cited by: 9

  • Close companions

    Open Access•L Yeomans, Louise Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological…•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 56

  • The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Jordanian Badia

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 7

    Until recently the late Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic occupation of Jordan's eastern badia was poorly understood and developments in this region were considered as secondary to those in the Jordan Valley or elsewhere. Recent fieldwork in the Qa' Shubayqa are has led to the discovery of a dense cluster of late Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) sites, which shed a different light on this phase of human settlement in eastern J…

  • Comprehension and Validation of Text Information

    Tobias Richter, David N Rapp•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 18

  • The Role of Source Credibility in the Validation of Information Depends on the Degree of (Im-)Plausibility

    Andreas G Wertgen, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 48

    This study examined the role of source credibility in the validation of factual information embedded in short narratives. In a self-paced reading experiment, we tested the assumption that the degree of (im-)plausibility determines the extent that source credibility affects validation during comprehension. We used reading times of target and spillover sentences and plausibility judgments as indicators of validation. Participants read stories with …

  • Assessment of physiological disturbances during pre‐ and early postnatal development based on microscopic analysis of human deciduous teeth from the Late Epipaleolithic site of Shubayqa 1 (Jordan)

    Open Access•H Kierdorf, Carsten Witzel et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 76

    OBJECTIVES: To study pre- and early postnatal tooth formation and to analyze the effects of physiological disturbances on enamel and dentin formation in deciduous teeth of infants from the Late Epipaleolithic (Natufian) site Shubayqa 1. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten deciduous teeth from six infants (ages at death between 21 and 239 days) were analyzed by light and scanning electron microscopy. RESULTS: Marked prism cross-striations and an abnormal w…

  • Empowering Stories

    Open Access•Maj-Britt Isberner, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 44

    Several studies have shown that narratives can influence readers' beliefs about themselves. In the present study, our goal was to investigate whether stories portraying a strong protagonist can positively influence recipients' beliefs of being in control of events in their own lives (self-related control beliefs). Experiment 1 showed that narratives in both written text and video form with protagonists displaying high versus low self-efficacy can…

  • Feasting on Wild Boar in the Early Neolithic. Evidence from an 11,400-year-old Placed Deposit at Tappeh Asiab, Central Zagros

    Open Access•Pernille Bangsgaard, L Yeomans et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Archaeological Journal•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 32

    The contents of a pit located in the centre of a large communal structure at Asiab in the central Zagros mountains provides rare evidence for ritual food practices during the Early Neolithic (~9660–9300 cal.bc). This pit contained the skulls of at least 19 wild boars carefully placed inside and subsequently sealed. Antler from red deer and the skull of a brown bear were also concealed within the pit. The boars included both male and female animal…

  • The Formation of Early Neolithic Communities in the Central Zagros

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Hojjat Darabi et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 46

    Communal buildings have been reported from a number of early Neolithic sites from the Levant and Anatolia, but none were known from the central Zagros. Here we report on the recent excavations at Asiab, Kermanshah province, Iran, and argue that the principal feature found during Robert Braidwood’s excavation at the site in 1960 should be interpreted as an example of a communal building. We discuss the results of the previous and recent excavation…

  • Argument Strength and the Persuasiveness of Stories

    Open Access•Constanze Schreiner, M Appel et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 63

    Stories are a powerful means to change people's attitudes and beliefs. The aim of the current work was to shed light on the role of argument strength (argument quality) in narrative persuasion. The present study examined the influence of strong versus weak arguments on attitudes in a low or high narrative context. Moreover, baseline attitudes, interindividual differences in working memory capacity, and recipients' transportation were examined. St…

  • Active/Exploratory Training Promotes Transfer Even in Learners with Low Motivation and Cognitive Ability

    Open Access•Nz Keith, Nina Keith et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Psychology•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    Active training approaches encourage self-directed exploration, whereas guided training stresses direct instruction and external guidance during training. The present research investigated interactions of individual-difference variables-motivation and cognitive ability-and training approach on performance in tasks that are similar to training tasks (analogical transfer) and tasks that are novel and distinct from training tasks (adaptive transfer)…

  • New excavations at Tappeh Asiab, Kermanshah Province, Iran

    Open Access•Hojjat Darabi, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    The site of Tappeh Asiab in Iran is one of only a handful of Early Neolithic sites known from the Zagros Mountains. Discovered during Robert Braidwood's 'Iranian Prehistory' project, the site has seen limited publication of its early excavations. Here, the authors challenge some of the initial assumptions made about the site by discussing the first findings of renewed excavations, in the hope of substantially improving our currently limited knowl…

  • Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension

    Open Access•Johanna Abendroth, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    Readers often prioritize processing and comprehension of information perceived as relevant to a particular intention. Using a repeated-measurement study, we investigated how readers’ prior beliefs and external reading perspectives influence processing and comprehension of belief-relevant texts on two socioscientific controversies. University students read belief-relevant texts from a belief-consistent perspective in one experimental session and f…

  • The ability to evaluate arguments in scientific texts

    Open Access•Hannes Münchow, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Educational…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    BACKGROUND: The evaluation of informal arguments is a key component of comprehending scientific texts and scientific literacy. AIM: The present study examined the nomological network of university students' ability to evaluate informal arguments in scientific texts and the relevance of this ability for academic success. SAMPLE: A sample of 225 university students from the social and educational sciences participated in the study. METHODS: Judgeme…

  • The mediating role of event-congruent emotions in narrative persuasion

    Open Access•M Appel, Constanze Schreiner et al.•ARTICLE•Poetics•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 65

  • Response Times in Attitudinal Items as Indicators of the Continuous Accessibility of Knowledge Related to Attitudes

    Open Access•Johannes Naumann, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2000

    In the paradigm of social cognition, the measurement of response latencies is important not only for priming procedures directed at the cognitive representation, but also for the assessment of strength-related properties of attitudes. The present paper explored the possibility of using response times as indicators of the continuous accessibility of attitude-relevant knowledge. For two different sets of attitudinal items concerning social welfare …

  • What Is Wrong With Anova and Multiple Regression? Analyzing Sentence Reading Times With Hierarchical Linear Models

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2006•Cited by: 12•References: 29

    Most reading time studies using naturalistic texts yield data sets characterized by a multilevel structure: Sentences (sentence level) are nested within persons (person level). In contrast to analysis of variance and multiple regression techniques, hierarchical linear models take the multilevel structure of reading time data into account. They provide methods to estimate variance components and to model the influence of predictor variables on dif…

  • Anmerkung

    Ssoufian Bouchouaf, Gabriele Britz et al.•ARTICLE•JuristenZeitung•2007

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • Persuasive Effects of Fictional Narratives Increase Over Time

    Open Access•M Appel, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Media Psychology•2007

    Fact-related information contained in fictional narratives may induce substantial changes in readers' real-world beliefs. Current models of persuasion through fiction assume that these effects occur because readers are psychologically transported into the fictional world of the narrative. Contrary to general dual-process models of persuasion, models of persuasion through fiction also imply that persuasive effects of fictional narratives are persi…

  • You don't have to believe everything you read

    Tobias Richter, Sascha Schroeder et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2009•Cited by: 28

    In social cognition, knowledge-based validation of information is usually regarded as relying on strategic and resource-demanding processes. Research on language comprehension, in contrast, suggests that validation processes are involved in the construction of a referential representation of the communicated information. This view implies that individuals can use their knowledge to validate incoming information in a routine and efficient manner. …

  • New Light on Final Pleistocene Settlement Diversity in the Azraq Basin (Jordan)

    Tobias Richter, Samantha Allcock et al.•ARTICLE•Paléorient•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 11

    Les fouilles du site daté de l’Épipaléolithique ancien de ‘ Ayn Qasiyya dans l’oasis d’Azraq (Est de la Jordanie) fournissent des données nouvelles et importantes pour notre compréhension des causes de la sédentarisation, des effets écologiques sur l’évolution culturelle, des pratiques funéraires et des relations sociales en Asie du Sud-Ouest à la fi n du Pléistocène. Cet article présente un résumé du travail sur ce site et il fournit les résulta…

  • Active/Exploratory Training Promotes Transfer Even in Learners with Low Motivation and Cognitive Ability

    Open Access•Nz Keith, Nina Keith et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Psychology•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    Active training approaches encourage self-directed exploration, whereas guided training stresses direct instruction and external guidance during training. The present research investigated interactions of individual-difference variables-motivation and cognitive ability-and training approach on performance in tasks that are similar to training tasks (analogical transfer) and tasks that are novel and distinct from training tasks (adaptive transfer)…

  • Transportation and Need for Affect in Narrative Persuasion

    M Appel, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Media Psychology•2010

    Two experiments investigated the idea that individual differences in need for affect are critical for narrative persuasion. Need for affect, that is, the disposition to approach emotions, was assumed to facilitate the experience of being transported into the mental world of the narrative. An intense experience of transportation, in turn, should enhance the persuasive impact of narrative information on readers' beliefs. A mediated moderation analy…

  • Paleoclimatic and archeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan

    Open Access•Matthew D Jones, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Quaternary Research•2011

    Wetlands are a key archive for paleoclimatic and archeological work, particularly in arid regions, as they provide a focus for human occupation and preserve environmental information. The sedimentary record from 'Ayn Qasiyya, a spring site on the edge of the Azraq Qa, provides a well-dated sequence through the last glacial–interglacial transition (LGIT) allowing environmental changes in the present-day Jordanian desert to be investigated robustly…

  • Interaction before Agriculture

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Andrew N Garrard et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Archaeological Journal•2011

  • Interaction before Agriculture

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Andrew Garrard et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Archaeological Journal•2011•Cited by: 20

    This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and are often considered to represent typical hallmarks of emergent farming societies. The hunter-gatherers of the final Pleistocene, in particular those of the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic, have more rarely been the focus of such discussion…

  • The Pre-Natufian Epipaleolithic

    Open Access•L Maher, Lisa A Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Evolutionary Anthropology Issues…•2012•Cited by: 62•References: 63

    Few cultural developments have taken on as much archeological significance as when people began living in villages and producing their own food. The economic, social, technological, and ideological transformations immediately preceding and following these changes were profound. Early models of culture change associated with pre-agricultural societies of the Levant focused on the sudden, late origin of settled farming villages triggered by climate…

  • Does Validation During Language Comprehension Depend on an Evaluative Mindset

    Open Access•Maj-Britt Isberner, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 54

    Whether information is routinely and nonstrategically evaluated for truth during comprehension is still a point of contention. Previous studies supporting the assumption of nonstrategic validation have used a Stroop-like paradigm in which participants provided yes/no judgments in tasks unrelated to the truth or plausibility of the experimental sentences. Other studies using a nonevaluative task failed to support this assumption. This leaves open …

  • Comprehension and Validation of Text Information

    Tobias Richter, David N Rapp•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 18

  • The Transportation Scale–Short Form (TS–SF)

    M Appel, Timo Gnambs et al.•ARTICLE•Media Psychology•2015

    One popular concept to capture the experience of being immersed into the world of a story is that of transportation. This article examines the factorial validity of the Transportation Scale (TS) and introduces a short and psychometrically sound alternative for the assessment of transportation. Exploratory bifactor modeling in Study 1 (N = 179) provided support for the hypothesized factor structure of the original TS with three facets and a genera…

  • Validation and Comprehension of Text Information

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2015•Cited by: 21•References: 57

    In psychological research, the comprehension of linguistic information and the knowledge-based assessment of its validity are often regarded as two separate stages of information processing. Recent findings in psycholinguistics and text comprehension research call this two-stage model into question. In particular, validation can affect comprehension outcomes, and the comprehension process involves a routine and early validation of the communicate…

  • Medienpsychologie

    Lisa Aelker, Markius Appel et al.•BOOK•Medienpsychologie•2016

    In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…

  • Preliminary analysis of the Late Natufian ground stone from Shubayqa 1, Jordan

    Open Access•Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Lithic Studies•2016

    Shubayqa 1 is a newly identified early and late Natufian site in the harra desert of northeastern Jordan. In addition to buildings, and rich chipped stone, faunal, and botanical assemblages, the site has produced a large collection of ground stone tools. This paper presents the result of a preliminary study of the ground stone artefacts associated with the late Natufian phase. Results indicate that while the assemblage is overall very similar to …

  • The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV

    Open Access•Matthew D Jones, L Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Quaternary International•2016

  • Shubayqa 6

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA; c. 9600-8500 cal BC) period in the Levant provides the earliest confirmed evidence for plant cultivation anywhere in the world, marking a significant escalation in the human management of plants towards fully fledged agricultural food production. Until now, the majority of PPNA sites have been documented in the Jordan Valley, the Wadi Araba and farther north along the Upper Euphrates (e.g. Mureybet, Jerf el-Ahma…

  • Comprehension of Multiple Documents With Conflicting Information

    Tobias Richter, Johanna Maier•ARTICLE•Educational Psychologist•2017

    In this article, we examine the cognitive processes that are involved when readers comprehend conflicting information in multiple texts. Starting from the notion of routine validation during comprehension, we argue that readers' prior beliefs may lead to a biased processing of conflicting information and a one-sided mental model of controversial issues (text-belief consistency effect). An important distinction is that such biases occur routinely …

  • Processing of positive-causal and negative-causal coherence relations in primary school children and adults

    Open Access•JULIA KNOEPKE, Tobias Richter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Child Language•2017

    Establishing local coherence relations is central to text comprehension. Positive-causal coherence relations link a cause and its consequence, whereas negative-causal coherence relations add a contrastive meaning (negation) to the causal link. According to the cumulative cognitive complexity approach, negative-causal coherence relations are cognitively more complex than positive-causal ones. Therefore, they require greater cognitive effort during…

  • How reliable are students’ evaluations of teaching quality? A variance components approach

    Open Access•Daniela Feistauer, Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Assessment & Evaluation in Higher…•2017

    The inter-rater reliability of university students’ evaluations of teaching quality was examined with cross-classified multilevel models. Students (N = 480) evaluated lectures and seminars over three years with a standardised evaluation questionnaire, yielding 4224 data points. The total variance of these student evaluations was separated into the variance components of courses, teachers, students and the student/teacher interaction. The substant…

  • The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Jordanian Badia

    Tobias Richter•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 7

    Until recently the late Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic occupation of Jordan's eastern badia was poorly understood and developments in this region were considered as secondary to those in the Jordan Valley or elsewhere. Recent fieldwork in the Qa' Shubayqa are has led to the discovery of a dense cluster of late Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) sites, which shed a different light on this phase of human settlement in eastern J…

  • The Natufian of the Azraq Basin

    Open Access•Tobias Richter, L Maher et al.•CHAPTER•Natufian Foragers in the Levant•2018

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