Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards
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Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards.
To benefit from information provided by other people, people must be somewhat credulous. However, credulity entails risks. The optimal level of credulity depends on the relative costs of believing misinformation and failing to attend to accurate information. When information concerns hazards, erroneous incredulity is often more costly than erroneous credulity, given that disregarding accurate w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0956-7976,1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797617692108