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Attitudes towards scientific knowledge: social dispositions and personality traits.

The present pilot study investigates the relationships between scientific ignorance and several individual attitudes, personality traits and cultural behaviors. Starting from well-established practices and standards of psychometric analysis, our work has produced a complex cross-scalar survey of sci...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 1/2; pp. 119 - 140
Main Authors: Tommasi, Marco, Petricca, Paolo, Cozzolino, Giorgio, Casadio, Claudia
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2021
Subjects:
Scientists' attitudes
Personality
Social desirability
Psychometrics
Scientific knowledge
Self-esteem
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