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Educational Psychologist Volume 55, 2020 - Issue 3: Educational Responses to a “Post-Truth” World: Diverse Approaches to Improving Thinking About Scientific Issues
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Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments

Gale M. SinatraRossier School of Education, University of Southern California; Correspondence[email protected]
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Doug LombardiHuman Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College ParkORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-318X
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Pages 120-131 | Published online: 26 Mar 2020

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