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...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 1/2; pp. 119 - 140 |
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