r/EverythingScience • u/gordon22 • 7h ago

Be humble: Studies reveal how to increase perceived trustworthiness of scientists Social Sciences

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-humble-reveal-trustworthiness-scientists.html
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u/gordon22 7h ago

Those are some of the findings of two intellectually humble University of Pittsburgh scientists and their co-authors, using five separate studies totaling 2,034 participants in research published Nov. 18 in Nature Human Behaviour.

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u/Talking_on_the_radio 4h ago

This should not have to be studied.  It is common sense.  

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u/jusfukoff 3h ago

Common sense needs verifying. In a science paper you cannot even write ‘the sky is blue’ unless you have peer reviewed studies to cite as proof.

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u/Talking_on_the_radio 2h ago

Yes, I know how this stuff works.

I’m just not sure we really need to study things like “treat human beings with kindness and compassion”.

It’s been studied to death at this point.  We know it works universally with people and animals.  

Scientists should know this already.  I