A5064161858- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Topic Modeling
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Mental Health via Writing
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Education and Validation
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2018-2024
Easily comprehensible summaries of scholarly articles that are provided alongside ‘ordinary’ scientific abstracts, so-called plain language summaries, can be a powerful tool for communicating research findings to wider audience. Using an experimental within-person-design in preregistered study (N = 166), we showed the comprehensibility laypeople was higher compared abstracts psychological journal and also found actually understood corresponding information more correctly summaries. Moreover,...
Findings from psychological research are usually difficult to interpret for non-experts. Yet, non-experts resort findings inform their decisions (e.g., whether seek a psychotherapeutic treatment or not). Thus, the communication of non-expert audiences has received increasing attention over last years. Plain language summaries (PLS) abstracts peer-reviewed journal articles that aim explain rationale, methods, findings, and interpretation scientific study using non-technical language. Unlike...
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) such as stay‐at‐home orders aim at curbing the spread of novel coronavirus, SARS‐COV‐2. In March 2020, a large proportion German population supported interventions. this article, we analyse whether support for NPI dwindle with economic worries superimposing virus‐related in months to follow. We test seven pre‐registered 1 hypotheses using data from COSMO survey (Betsch, Wieler, Habersaat, et al. 2020), which regularly monitors behavioural and...
Objective: Individual goals of health information seeking have been widely neglected by previous research, let alone systematically assessed. The authors propose that these may be classified on two dimensions, namely coping focus (problem versus emotion oriented) and regulatory (promotion prevention oriented).Methods: Based this classification, the developed 16-item Goals Associated with Health Information Seeking (GAINS) questionnaire measuring four 'understanding', 'action planning',...
Abstract: Plain language summaries (PLSs) are easily comprehensible of scientific articles. They translate research findings for nonexperts to foster laypersons’ understanding evidence. We examined whether PLSs psychological meta-analyses improve evidence in a general population sample. Moreover, develop guidance on writing PLSs, we varied four PLS characteristics: The number effects reported, information conflicts interest (COI), publication bias, practical relevance statements. In an...
Plain language summaries (PLS) aim to communicate research findings laypersons in an easily understandable manner. Despite the societal relevance of making psychological available public, our empirical knowledge on how write PLS psychology studies is still scarce. In this article, we present two experimental investigating six characteristics for meta-analyses. We specifically focused approaches (1) handling technical terms, (2) communicating quality evidence by explaining methodological...
Although there is a multitude of taxonomies health information sources, these only partly include how users classify sources. The present paper complements this research by developing taxonomy which based on individuals' subjective perceptions the 'universe' In our study, nine non-redundant sources were presented to N = 150 participants who rated all 36 possible combinations source pairs regarding their perceived similarity. Results nonmetric multidimensional scaling suggested three basic...
Background Many interventions on epistemic beliefs (i.e., individual about knowledge and knowing) are based Bendixen Rule’s Integrative Model for Personal Epistemology Development . Empirically, however, the model is still insufficiently validated. This especially true its volition component – a will or desire to actively change one’s beliefs. Aims To experimentally scrutinize role of volition, we investigated (incremental) effects an intervention. Sample 412 psychology students enrolled at...
Abstract When dealing with a health threat, information seeking (HIS) is prominent way of engagement coping. Yet, there only limited research as to its motivational and emotion regulatory antecedents. We present theoretical model integrating approach avoidance motivation, regulation, HIS self-efficacy, problem coping focus predictors HIS. propose that, in the context HIS, (1) motivation have direct effect on regulation ability (positive negative, respectively), (2) indirect effects intended...
Zusammenfassung. Die eigenständige Suche sowie das adäquate Verständnis von Gesundheitsinformationen bilden eine wichtige Grundlage für die fundierte Entscheidungsfindung bei gesundheitlichen Problemen. hierfür zentralen Fähigkeiten sind Gesundheitsinformationskompetenz (Health Information Literacy, HIL) und allgemeine kognitive Fähigkeit (IQ). Konsequenzen einer adäquaten oder weniger Einschätzung der eigenen alltägliche Entscheidungen können erheblich sein, wurden jedoch im Kontext nach...
Lay readers’ trust in scientific texts can be shaped by perceived text easiness and scientificness. The two effects seem vital a time of rapid science information sharing, yet have so far only been examined separately. A preregistered online study was conducted to assess them jointly, probe for author trustworthiness overlap, investigate interindividual influences on the effects. N = 1467 lay readers read four short research summaries, with scientificness (high vs low) being experimentally...
Munro (2010, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00588.x) found that individuals, when confronted with belief-disconfirming scientific evidence, resist this information by concluding the topic at hand is not amenable to investigation-a impotence excuse. We strived replicate finding and extend work analyzing other factors might lead excuses. As a person-specific factor, we analyzed role of epistemic beliefs, as situational focused on contradictoriness evidence hand. Three sets hypotheses...
Selective exposure to online health information can be ascribed two related defense motives: the motivation confirm one’s subjective perceptions and protect relevant parts of self-image, such as physical integrity. Our aim was identify how these motives come into effect in context a threat (fictitious feedback on an alleged heart disease risk). In preregistered study with N = 763 participants, we analyzed impact perceived suggested risk degree bias selecting risk-related fictitious Google...
Plain Language Summaries (PLSs) describe scientific studies in a lay friendly way. This study investigates user feedback on PLSs based conceptual PLS framework. Our aim was to explore the users’ perspective and verify whether topics named by users correspond categories of In an online study, we presented German psychological participants. They were asked for their three open questions. We received 2032 responses from 1098 participants, which coded two raters Participants had homogeneous...
Plain Language Summaries (PLS) offer a promising solution to make meta-analytic psychological research more accessible for non-experts and laypeople. However, existing writing guidelines this type of publication are seldom grounded in empirical studies. To address test two versions new PLS guideline, we investigated the impact PLSs meta-analyses on laypeoples' PLS-related knowledge their user experience (accessibility, understanding, empowerment). In preregistered online-study, N = 2,041...