College students prefer scientific-expertise sources over personal-experiences sources when selecting documents for further reading¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across two experiments, participants were more likely to select sources with scientific expertise than sources with personal experiences for further reading. → Cornelia Schoor 2024

Evidence¶

Cornelia Schoor 2024¶

Cornelia Schoor, Jean-François Rouet, and M. Anne Britt (2024). Reading for University or for Myself? Effects of Context and Beliefs about Science on College Students' Document Selection. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116 (3), pp.317-345. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000849

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Summary of the selection preference reported for both experiments in the study, in which university students selected documents from SERPs for four target topics; the article reports that participants in both experiments "preferred scientific-expertise sources over personal-experiences sources". No effect size for the preference is printed in the available text.

"Like in previous studies, participants in both experiments preferred scientific-expertise sources over personal-experiences sources."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Selecting personal-experiences sources is more likely in a personal context without an external audience than in a university context — related
• More positive beliefs about science and more knowledge about how science works are associated with a lower probability of selecting personal-experiences sources — related