Abstract
This experiment investigates how individuals’ meta-knowledge (the self-perception of one’s knowledge) influences selective exposure to and elaboration of information about climate change with climate change self-schema as possible mediator. Participants’ (N = 510) meta-knowledge was manipulated by receiving fake feedback after a climate change knowledge test. There were no group differences in selective exposure and selective elaboration. Correlational evidence tentatively speaks for a “rich-get-richer” process of information selection and elaboration. This could be explained through climate change self-schemas which differed significantly between conditions (d = 0.26) and correlated positively with selective exposure (r = .36) and elaboration (r = .28).
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