The Message or the Messenger: The Impact of Explanation Satisfaction and Source Characteristics on Perceptions of Experts and Verdicts.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12730021 · PMID 41464014

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We did, however, find a three-way interaction between gender, education, and the explanation satisfaction manipulation on measured explanation satisfaction that approached significance ( p = 0.051), which provides some potential support for the gender-by-education interaction presented in Study 2.

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