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Seductive Details in Learning Text—Less Harmful if They Are Grouped Together Instead of Interspersed?
Wesenberg et al. 2025 · randomised trial · touches 1 claim · used in 1 attack
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Which beliefs it touches
- C8 Distracting extras backs it up
Randomised online experiment (N = 127): unmarked extras lowered transfer (2.02 and 2.18 vs 2.85 of 6; p = .012), and grouping them in one block did no better than interspersing them (BF01 = 4.34). Kill-condition test survived 2026-10-23.
Attacks that used it
- C8 attack #5, 23 October 2026: survived