Dealing with conflicting or consistent medical information on the web: When expert information breeds laypersons' doubts about experts

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-204

  Kienhues, Dorothe ^a   Stadtler, Marc ^a   Bromme, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epistemic beliefs; Health decision making; Medical information; Web search

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650174664     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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