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Metacognitive efficiency is predictive of individual differences in dogmatism about real-world issues such as politics and climate change, with the parameters governing confidence-based control correlating with people's openness to new information.
“Conversely, metacognitive efficiency is predictive of individual differences in dogmatism about real-world issues such as politics and climate change (Fischer et al. 2019, Rollwage et al. 2018), with the parameters governing confidence-based control correlating with people's openness to new information (Schulz et al. 2020).”
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- Authors
- Fischer, H., Amelung, D., & Said, N.
- Affiliations
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Fischer, Helen
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2019-09-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 776-780
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2972491249
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 13.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Keywords
- climate change knowledge, confidence in knowledge, metacognition, public understanding of science, misinformation, climate change denial, German citizens
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