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Vladimíra Čavojová1, Jakub Šrol1, Eva Ballová Mikušková1.
Abstract
We examined whether scientific reasoning is associated with health-related beliefs and behaviors over and above general analytic thinking ability in the general public (N = 783, aged 18-84). Health-related beliefs included: anti-vaccination attitudes, COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, and generic health-related epistemically suspect beliefs. Scientific reasoning correlated with generic pseudoscientific and health-related conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Crucially, scientific reasoning was a stronger independent predictor of unfounded beliefs (including anti-vaccination attitudes) than general analytic thinking was; however, it had a more modest role in health-related behaviors.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs; analytic thinking; anti-vaccination attitudes; preventive behavior; scientific reasoning
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Year: 2020 PMID: 33016131 DOI: 10.1177/1359105320962266
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Health Psychol ISSN: 1359-1053