How Affective Charge and Text-Picture Connectedness Moderate the Impact of Decorative Pictures on Multimedia Learning

Sascha Schneider; Jonathan Dyrna; Luis Meier; Maik Beege; Günter Daniel Rey

Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 110, No. 2 (2018) pp. 233–249

Decorative pictures, which make a learning text aesthetically appealing rather than provide information, have been predominantly found to impair learning by an increase of learning-irrelevant cognitive processes. Recent research, however, indicates...