(Re)Building Trust? Investigating the effects of open science badges on perceived trustworthiness of journal articles. [EXPANSION: Public Sample]

This study is an expansion to a prior study of Schneider et al. (2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.3364), in which we investigated the effects of open science badges in journal articles on trust in scientists. Since college students are a population that engage with scientific studies on a regular basis, the sample of the first study focused on this population. Among other results, the study revealed an effect of open science badges on trust in scientists. In two expansion studies we investigate the robustness of the effects over other populations (external validity). This study expands the investigation to include a sample of the public in the United Kingdom. Preregistration of: Schneider, J., Rosman, T., Kelava, A., & Merk, S. (2022). Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public? Psychological Science, 33(9), 1588–1604. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221097499 This study was partly supported by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology. unknown other