Revisiting “Importance of domain-specific metacognition for explaining beliefs about politicized science: The case of climate change“ – Evidence from a cross-cultural sample
Abstract:Having accurate knowledge about climate change has been shown to influence climatechange attitudes and behavior. However, due to an increase in online mediaconsumption, people are also confronted with much misinformation about climatechange. It is thus crucial that people use valid cues to infer whether information is trueor false, when to update their beliefs, and to make informed decisions. One such cuecould be meta-knowledge, usually measured as the confidence one has in one’sknowledge. Recent findings show… Show more
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