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: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2020-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200221/jdm200221.pdf