Publications

Publication details [#57697]

Bromme, Rainer, M. Anne Britt, Lisa Scharrer and Marc Stadtler. 2013. Easy to Understand but Difficult to Decide: Information Comprehensibility and Controversiality Affect Laypeople's Science-Based Decisions. Discourse Processes 50 (6) : 361–387.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehensibility | knowledge | medical language | scientific discussion | self-consciousness

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study indicates that polemic content doesn't decrease the facilitating impact of high text comprehensibility on well-educated lay recipients' self-reliance and that the impact of comprehensibility and controversiality is not moderated by perceived epistemic topic ravel.