When research is me-search: How researchers’ motivation to pursue a topic affects laypeople’s trust in science
| العنوان: | When research is me-search: How researchers’ motivation to pursue a topic affects laypeople’s trust in science |
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| المؤلفون: | Marlene Sophie Altenmüller, Mario Gollwitzer, Leonie Lucia Lange |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0253911 (2021) PLoS ONE |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Science and Technology Workforce, Conflicts of Interest, Social Sciences, 050109 social psychology, Careers in Research, Vascular Medicine, Medical Conditions, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Psychological Attitudes, Surveys and Questionnaires, Credibility, Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology, Homosexuals, Research Integrity, media_common, Multidisciplinary, Statistics, 05 social sciences, Middle Aged, Research Personnel, Stroke, Professions, Neurology, Research Design, Physical Sciences, Regression Analysis, Medicine, Female, Social psychology, Research Article, Adult, Adolescent, Science Policy, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Linear Regression Analysis, Research and Analysis Methods, Trust, Affect (psychology), 050105 experimental psychology, Young Adult, Perception, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Quality (business), Statistical Methods, Research question, Aged, Behavior, Motivation, Field (Bourdieu), Cognitive Psychology, Biology and Life Sciences, Trustworthiness, Attitude, Public Opinion, People and Places, Cognitive Science, Scientists, Population Groupings, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Sexuality Groupings |
| الوصف: | Research is often fueled by researchers’ scientific, but also their personal interests: Sometimes, researchers decide to pursue a specific research question because the answer to that question is idiosyncratically relevant for themselves: Such “me-search” may not only affect the quality of research, but also how it is perceived by the general public. In two studies (N= 621), we investigate the circumstances under which learning about a researcher’s “me-search” increases or decreases laypeople’s ascriptions of trustworthiness and credibility to the respective researcher. Results suggest that participants’ own preexisting attitudes towards the research topic moderate the effects of “me-search” substantially: When participants hold favorable attitudes towards the research topic (i.e., LGBTQ or veganism), “me-searchers” were perceived as more trustworthy and their research was perceived as more credible. This pattern was reversed when participants held unfavorable attitudes towards the research topic. Study 2 furthermore shows that trustworthiness and credibility perceptions generalize to evaluations of the entire field of research. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::9bb70e9ca9d6033b2c99df5438454b4eTest https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253911Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....9bb70e9ca9d6033b2c99df5438454b4e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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