Role confusion on social media in science communication

We aim to explore how users confuse the roles of different senders on social media (e.g. scientists, laypeople) in science communication. Using the “Who Said What?” paradigm, participants are exposed to different social media posts in which the actors talk about climate change as well as private topics - either combined with or without profile information. Since we expect participants to confuse the roles of scientists and layperson, we predict more between-category errors for participants that have no profile information to the post of a sender. Overall hypotheses: Users confuse the roles of senders on social media in science communication when no additional profile information is visible at first glance.