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Explores the impact of instructional humour on learning outcomes, suggesting caution with irrelevant humour.
It may be safer to avoid irrelevant instructional humour (even when course-related) because of the risk of a detrimental seductive details effect. Further research is needed with respect to the cognitive and affective-motivational effectiveness of relevant instructional humour.
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Bender et al. (2026) studied this question.
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