Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
J Health Psychol. 2022 Mar;27(3):534-547. doi: 10.1177/1359105320962266. Epub 2020 Oct 4.
We examined whether scientific reasoning is associated with health-related beliefs and behaviors over and above general analytic thinking ability in the general public ( = 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.
我们考察了在普通公众中（n=783，年龄 18-84 岁），科学推理是否与健康相关的信念和行为有关，而不仅仅与一般的分析思维能力有关。健康相关的信念包括：反疫苗接种态度、新冠病毒相关阴谋论信念以及一般的健康相关可疑认知信念。科学推理与一般的伪科学和与健康相关的阴谋论信念以及新冠病毒相关阴谋论信念相关。至关重要的是，科学推理是对无根据信念（包括反疫苗接种态度）的更强独立预测因素，而不是一般的分析思维；然而，它在健康相关行为中的作用更为适度。
