Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms

Autor: Kevin Winter, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lotte Pummerer, Kai Sassenberg

Publikováno v: Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)

Abstract Misinformation campaigns target wind farms, but levels of agreement with this misinformation among the broader public are unclear. Across six nationally quota-based samples in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia (total N = 6008)

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When Grades Are High but Self-Efficacy Is Low: Unpacking the Confidence Gap Between Girls and Boys in Mathematics

Autor: Lysann Zander, Elisabeth Höhne, Sophie Harms, Maximilian Pfost, Matthew J. Hornsey

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020)

Girls have much lower mathematics self-efficacy than boys, a likely contributor to the under-representation of women in STEM. To help explain this gender confidence gap, we examined predictors of mathematics self-efficacy in a sample of 1,007 9th gra

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Does Sexual Desire Fluctuate More Among Women than Men?

Autor: Emily A. Harris, Matthew J. Hornsey, Wilhelm Hofmann, Patrick Jern, Sean C. Murphy, Fanny Hedenborg, Fiona K. Barlow

Publikováno v: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 52:1461-1478

There is a lay assumption that women’s sexual desire varies substantially over time, whereas men’s is stable. This assumption is mirrored in prominent theories of desire, which posit that women are more variable than men in the extent to which th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02525-y

A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism

Autor: Matthew J. Hornsey, Stephan Lewandowsky

Publikováno v: Hornsey, M & Lewandowsky, S 2022, ' A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism ', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 1454–1464 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y

Despite over 50 years of messaging about the reality of human-caused climate change, substantial portions of the population remain sceptical. Furthermore, many sceptics remain unmoved by standard science communication strategies, such as myth busting

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y

Belief in Luck and Precognition Around the World

Autor: Emily A. Harris, Taciano L. Milfont, Matthew J. Hornsey

Publikováno v: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 53:1033-1053

Although magical beliefs (such as belief in luck and precognition) are presumably universal, the extent to which such beliefs are embraced likely varies across cultures. We assessed the effect of culture on luck and precognition beliefs in two large-

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https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221110462