ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2024
Psychological Distance to Science as a Predictor of Science Skepticism Across Domains.
Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- More Biased, Yet More Informed? Documenting Me-Search Stigma Primarily Linked to Researchers' Own Group Memberships.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026Article
- Please reduce the gap! How psychological distance to politics fuels belief in conspiracy theories.The British journal of social psychology · 2026Article
- Psychological Distance to Science: Psychometric Evaluation of the Swedish PSYDISC-Scale and as a Predictor of Science Skepticism.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Public perceptions of biospecimen sampling and uncertainty in the context of personalised nutrition.PloS one · 2025Article
- Space as a mental toolbox in the representation of meaning.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Anxiety and Worry about Six Categories of Climate Change Impacts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The (im-)moral scientist? Measurement and framing effects shape the association between scientists and immorality.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
This article presents and tests psychological distance to science (PSYDISC) as a domain-general predictor of science skepticism. Drawing on the concept of psychological distance, PSYDISC reflects the extent to which individuals perceive science as a tangible undertaking conducted by people similar to oneself (
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