Replication Rate, Framing, and Format Affect Attitudes and Decisions about Science Claims

A series of five experiments examined how the evaluation of a scientific finding was influenced by information about the number of studies that had successfully replicated the initial finding. The experiments also tested the impact of frame (negative, positive) and numeric format (percentage, natura...

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Main Authors: Ralph M. Barnes, Stephanie Tobin, Heather Johnston, Noah MacKenzie, Chelsea Taglang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01826/full