Trivially informative semantic context inflates people's confidence they can perform a highly complex skill.

R Soc Open Sci · 2022 · PMC8924756 · PMID 35308623

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We also found a marginally significant interaction; F 1,581 = 3.53, p = 0.06, such that watching the video inflated people's confidence when the ‘without dying’ question was asked first.

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