Citation

Furnham A, Gunter B, Peterson E. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 1994; 8(7): 705-711.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.2350080708

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

An experiment was run to test the effect on reading comprehension of distraction by a television programme, which was presented while reading took place. Respondents, classified in terms of extroversion or introversion, carried out two reading comprehension tests in silence and in the presence of a television drama programme. As predicted, extroverts and introverts both performed better in silence, but there was a significant interaction that showed that extroverts performed better than introverts in the presence of television distraction. The findings are discussed in relation to previous research on this subject.

Language: en