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Overview

Rainer Bromme is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and specializes in social sciences and psychology. Their research work spans several intersecting fields including sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, education, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass misinformation and its impacts, educational strategies and epistemologies, climate change communication and perception, education and critical thinking development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, advanced text analysis techniques, and public relations and crisis communication.

Rainer Bromme has contributed frequently to several publication venues. Notably, these include PLoS ONE and Psychology Archives, where they have two publications each, as well as Educational Psychologist, Frontiers in Communication, and Public Understanding of Science.

Their recent papers feature the following works:

  • "An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Sealing the gateways for post-truthism: Reestablishing the epistemic authority of science" (2020, Educational Psychologist)
  • "Predicting Public Trust in Science: The Role of Basic Orientations Toward Science, Perceived Trustworthiness of Scientists, and Experiences With Science" (2022, Frontiers in Communication)
  • "Replication crisis = trust crisis? The effect of successful vs failed replications on laypeople's trust in researchers and research" (2020, Public Understanding of Science)
  • "Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scientific evidence (for some people)" (2020, PLoS ONE)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Bromme's work. Frequent co-authors include Eva Thomm, Dorothe Kienhues, Friederike Hendriks, Niels G. Mede, and Regina Jucks.

Best Publications

  • Der Lehrer als Experte : zur Psychologie des professionellen Wissens

    Rainer Bromme

  • Measuring Laypeople’s Trust in Experts in a Digital Age: The Muenster Epistemic Trustworthiness Inventory (METI)

    Friederike Hendriks;Dorothe Kienhues;Rainer Bromme

  • The Public's Bounded Understanding of Science

    Rainer Bromme;Susan R. Goldman

  • Changing epistemological beliefs: The unexpected impact of a short‐term intervention

    Dorothe Kienhues;Rainer Bromme;Elmar Stahl

  • Conocimientos profesionales de los profesores

    R. Bromme

  • Fusing experience and theory: The structure of professional knowledge

    R. Bromme;H. Tillema

  • Epistemological beliefs are standards for adaptive learning: a functional theory about epistemological beliefs and metacognition

    Rainer Bromme;Stephanie Pieschl;Elmar Stahl

  • 6. Beyond One's Own Perspective: The Psychology of Cognitive Interdisciplinarity

    Rainer Bromme

  • The CAEB: An instrument for measuring connotative aspects of epistemological beliefs

    Elmar Stahl;Rainer Bromme

  • Forschung zur Lehrerpersönlichkeit

    Rainer Bromme;Ludwig Haag

  • Professional learning: Gaps and transitions on the way from novice to expert

    Henny P. A. Boshuizen;Rainer Bromme;Hans Gruber

  • Trust in Science and the Science of Trust

    Friederike Hendriks;Dorothe Kienhues;Rainer Bromme

  • Effects of the metacognitive computer-tool met.a.ware on the web search of laypersons

    Marc Stadtler;Rainer Bromme

  • Dealing with multiple documents on the WWW: The role of metacognition in the formation of documents models

    Marc Stadtler;Rainer Bromme

  • Who knows what and who can we believe? Epistemological beliefs are beliefs about knowledge (mostly) to be attained from others

    Rainer Bromme;Dorothe Kienhues;Torsten Porsch

  • Knowledge and Epistemological Beliefs: An Intimate but Complicate Relationship

    Rainer Bromme;Dorothe Kienhues;Elmar Stahl

  • Das Denken von Lehrern bei der Unterrichtsvorbereitung : eine empirische Untersuchung zu kognitiven Prozessen von Mathematiklehrern

    Rainer Bromme

  • Dealing with Conflicting or Consistent Medical Information on the Web: When Expert Information Breeds Laypersons' Doubts about Experts.

    Dorothe Kienhues;Marc Stadtler;Rainer Bromme

  • Epistemological beliefs and self-regulated learning with hypertext

    Stephanie Pieschl;Elmar Stahl;Rainer Bromme

  • Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication: And How They May Be Overcome

    Rainer Bromme;Friedrich W. Hesse;Hans Spada

  • Expertise and estimating what other people know: the influence of professional experience and type of knowledge.

    Rainer Bromme;Riklef Rambow;Matthias Nückles

  • Dealing With Uncertainty: Readers' Memory for and Use of Conflicting Information From Science Texts as Function of Presentation Format and Source Expertise

    Marc Stadtler;Lisa Scharrer;Benjamin Brummernhenrich;Rainer Bromme

  • Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication

    Rainer Bromme;Friedrich W. Hesse;Hans Spada

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Anne Britt
M. Anne Britt Northern Illinois University
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Henny P. A. Boshuizen
Henny P. A. Boshuizen The Open University
Lucia Mason
Lucia Mason University of Padua
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Nicole C. Krämer
Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen
Gün R. Semin
Gün R. Semin ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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