Communicating highly divergent levels of scientific and social consensus: its effects on people’s scientific beliefs

This study examined the impact of presenting scientific and social consensus information together on people’s scientific beliefs when the two types of consensus information contradict each other. Japanese adults (N = 1,518) received information about high scientific consensus and low social consensu...

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Main Author: Keiichi Kobayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-10-01
Series:Social Influence
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15534510.2019.1650105