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Direct linkScharrer, Lisa; Pape, Vanessa; Stadtler, Marc – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Research has shown that laypeople tend to rely on their own evaluations when encountering scientific text information that is easy to comprehend. This easiness effect of science popularization leaves them vulnerable to uncritically accepting misinformation presented in a simplified manner. The present study investigated whether warnings of…
Descriptors: Merchandise Information, Lay People, Evaluative Thinking, Scientific and Technical Information
