This research focuses on the degree of credibility of educational texts with brain pictures and textual information about the brain, which are read by teachers. The seductive allure of neuroscience...Show moreThis research focuses on the degree of credibility of educational texts with brain pictures and textual information about the brain, which are read by teachers. The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations (SANE) effect is tested, which means that people judge a text as more credible due to the presence of information about the brain or a picture of the brain. The main question is: what role does information about the brain play to the extent to which teachers consider a text credible? To answer this question, a questionnaire was sent to teachers. This questionnaire contained eight texts, for each text the participants answered five statements about the credibility of the text. An average credibility score was calculated based on these statements. Results showed that there was also the SANE effect in teachers. The results showed that there is an effect in terms of years of teaching experience, with teachers with more years of teaching experience judging a text with a higher degree of credibility in general. Finally, there also appeared to be a difference with regard to the educational attainment of the teachers, with the teachers with a university education judging a text in general with a lesser degree of credibility. The sample distributions of the education type are uneven in this study, so the results of the present study should be interpreted with caution. Another limitation is that more non-university-trained teachers participated in the survey, resulting in an uneven distribution with regard to the educational level of the participants. Follow-up research should focus on preventing uneven distributions, by involving more university-trained teachers in the research.Show less