Communicating scientific uncertainties: Effects of message and audience characteristics in the context of microplastic health risks.

Leonie Fian, Nina Vaupotič, Isabel Richter, Albert A Koelmans, Sabine Pahl

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Article in Public understanding of science (Bristol, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Can Knowledge Counteract Conflict? A Partial Replication Study of PFAS Science Communication.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Leonie FianEnvironmental Psychology Research Group, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-4824-6360

Nina VaupotičEnvironmental Psychology Research Group, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7210-4157

Isabel RichterCitizens, Environment and Safety Research Group, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1196-2769

Albert A KoelmansAquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7176-4356

Sabine PahlEnvironmental Psychology Research Group, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3799-6716

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communicating uncertainties is central to science communication, yet evidence on its effects is inconclusive. In an online experiment with a quasi-representative sample in Austria (

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CommunicationInformation DisseminationMicroplasticsAustriaFemaleHumansRisk AssessmentTrustUncertaintyMicroplasticshuman healthmicroplasticspolicy supportrisk perceptionscience attitudes and beliefsscience communicationscientific uncertaintytrust in scientists

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PMID41619196

DOI10.1177/09636625251410494

PMCPMC13096624

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