Commentary on Eskreis-Winkler and Fishbach (2019): A Tendency to Answer Consistently Can Generate Apparent Failures to Learn From Failure

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<p>Recent research proposes failure undermines learning: people learn less from failure (vs. success) because failure is ego-threatening and causes people to tune out. I argue the core paradigm (the Script Task) provides a confounded test of that claim. When people do not learn from test feedback, they may give internally-consistent answers on a subsequent test. The Script Task’s scoring guidelines mark consistent...

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• COVID-19
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4256ed80-6b8f-56d1-b467-9febb711b47b

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10.31234/osf.io/93pcn