Disproven but Still Believed: The Role of Information and Individual Differences in the Prediction of Topic-Related Pseudoscience Acceptance

Autor/inn/en	García-Arch, Josue; Ballestero-Arnau, Marc; Pérez Hoyas, Lorena; Giaiotti, Francesca
Titel	Disproven but Still Believed: The Role of Information and Individual Differences in the Prediction of Topic-Related Pseudoscience Acceptance
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36 (2022) 2, S.268-282 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (García-Arch, Josue)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3914
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Information Sources; Personality Traits; Cognitive Style; Predictor Variables; Individual Differences; Medicine; Folk Culture; Scientific Attitudes; Familiarity; Correlation; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Information source; Informationsquelle; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Prädiktor; Individueller Unterschied; Medizin; Korrelation
Abstract	The spread of pseudoscience (PS) is a worrying problem worldwide. The study of pseudoscience beliefs and their associated predictors have been conducted in the context of isolated pseudoscience topics (e.g., complementary and alternative medicine). Here, we combined individual differences (IIDD) measures (e.g., personality traits, thinking styles) with measures related with the information received about PS: familiarity and disproving information (DI) in order to explore potential differences among pseudoscience topics in terms of their associated variables. These topics differed in their familiarity, their belief rating, and their associated predictors. Critically, our results not only show that DI is negatively associated with pseudoscience beliefs but that the effect of various IIDD predictors (e.g., analytic thinking) depends on whether DI had been received. This study highlights the need to control for variables related to information received about pseudoscientific claims to better understand the effect of other predictors on different pseudoscience beliefs topics. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01