van Stekelenburg et al. (2021), Study 2

The study aimed to assess changes in opinion of skeptics when faced with evidence of scientific consensus through manipulation of experimental condition explaining how to assess a news claim. The subject in question was Genetically Engineered Food (GEF).

Usage

SSVB21_S2

Format

A data frame with 442 rows and 3 variables:

prior

[integer] negative of prior belief score

post

[integer] post experiment score for veracity of claim

condition

[factor] experimental condition, one of Boost, BoostPlus and consensus

Source

Open Science Foundation, https://osf.io/hua8v/, licensed under CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International

References

Stekelenburg, A. van, Schaap, G., Veling, H., & Buijzen, M. (2021). Boosting understanding and identification of scientific consensus can help to correct false beliefs. Psychological Science, 32(10), 1549–1565. doi:10.1177/09567976211007788