Individual differences in receptivity to scientific bullshit

Pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity is the tendency to perceive meaning in important-sounding, nonsense statements. To understand how bullshit receptivity differs across domains, we develop a scale to measure scientific bullshit receptivity — the tendency to perceive truthfulness in nonsensical sci...

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Main Authors: Anthony Evans, Willem Sleegers, Žan Mlakar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500007191/type/journal_article