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Title
You Understand, So I Understand: How A "Community of Knowledge" Shapes Trust in Expert Evidence
Description
This experiment uses the Community of Knowledge framework to better understand how jurors interpret new information (Sloman & Rabb, 2016). Participants learned of an ostensibly new scientific finding that was claimed to either be well-understood or not understood by experts. Despite including no additional information, expert understanding led participants to believe that they personally understood the phenomenon, with expert understanding acting as a cue for trustworthiness and believability. This effect was particularly pronounced with low-quality sources. These results are discussed in the context of how information is used by jurors in court, and the implications of the “Community of Knowledge” effect being used by expert witnesses.
Date Created
2018
Contributors
- Jones, Ashley C. T. (Author)
- Schweitzer, Nicholas J. (Thesis advisor)
- Neal, Tess M.S. (Committee member)
- Salerno, Jessica M. (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
50 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50550
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Masters Thesis Psychology 2018
System Created
- 2018-10-01 08:04:10
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 2 years 7 months ago
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