Figure 1.

Weight-of-evidence strategies in public discussions. The displayed materials represent the weight-of-evidence strategies outnumbering and forewarning as used in the respective experiments. Following the social-cue mechanism of outnumbering, the number of science advocates and deniers varied between conditions (3:3 vs. 5:1) in all experiments. Following the additional multiple-source mechanism, all guests in the discussion contributed as speakers in Experiment 3. The presented forewarning text is a translated version of the original German forewarning used in Experiments 2 and 3.