Social Validation of Everyday Knowledge: Heterogeneity and Consensus Functionality

摘要: This article presents evidence supporting the idea that laypeople use specific types of informational cues about composition groups to derive and attribute validity knowledge conveyed by these groups. A pilot study two experimental studies analyzed role consensus heterogeneity information when participants positions opposing We predicted is moderated information. When are described as equally consensual, greater attributed more heterogeneous group, while one group consensual than other will not contribute validation groups’ opinions. Our support this prediction in different scenarios with manipulations terms their internal heterogeneity. These findings discussed context played social metacognitive beliefs everyday validation.