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Science Communication: Easy-to-Understand Videos Lead to Overconfidence – Deutsches Ärzteblatt

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Cologne – Simplified video summaries of scientific studies can increase comprehensibility, but can also lead to a distorted assessment of competence, the "easiness effect." This is what a research team from the University of Cologne reports in the journal Frontiers in Psychology (2025; DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1584695). Scientific...
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Cologne – Simplified video summaries of scientific studies can increase comprehensibility, but can also lead to a distorted assessment of competence, the "easiness effect." This is what a research team from the University of Cologne reports in the journal Frontiers in Psychology (2025; DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1584695). Scientific...

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Deutsches Ärzteblatt broke the news in on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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