| Autor: |
Clark CJ; Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.; Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania., Graso M; Department of Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen., Redstone I; Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign., Tetlock PE; Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.; Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Psychological science [Psychol Sci] 2023 Jul; Vol. 34 (7), pp. 834-848. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 01. |
| DOI: |
10.1177/09567976231168777 |
| Abstrakt: |
Two preregistered studies from two different platforms with representative U.S. adult samples ( N = 1,865) tested the harm-hypervigilance hypothesis in risk assessments of controversial behavioral science. As expected, across six sets of scientific findings, people consistently overestimated others' harmful reactions (medium to large average effect sizes) and underestimated helpful ones, even when incentivized for accuracy. Additional analyses found that (a) harm overestimations were associated with support for censoring science, (b) people who were more offended by scientific findings reported greater difficulty understanding them, and (c) evidence was moderately consistent for an association between more conservative ideology and harm overestimations. These findings are particularly relevant because journals have begun evaluating potential downstream harms of scientific findings. We discuss implications of our work and invite scholars to develop rigorous tests of (a) the social pressures that lead science astray and (b) the actual costs and benefits of publishing or not publishing potentially controversial conclusions. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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