This project contains data, code and materials of the following article:
Kerwer, M., Chasiotis, A., Stricker, J., Günther, A. & Rosman, T. (in press). Straight from the scientist's mouth - Plain language summaries promote laypeople’s comprehension and knowledge acquisition when reading about individual research findings in psychology. *Collabra: Psychology*.
The corresponding preregistration is available at:
Kerwer, M., Chasiotis, A., & Rosman, T. (2020). Plain language summaries for psychological studies. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.2772
**Scientific reuse of research data only:** Please note that the research data which are provided as a part of this work ("Gesamtdatensatz_Total_Dataset_Matrix.csv", "Wissenstestdatensatz_Knowledge_Test_Dataset_Matrix.csv" and "Versuchspersonendatensatz_Subject_Dataset_Matrix.csv") may only be used for scientific purposes.
Additional information:
- To anomynize data in the participant-level dataset, possibly identifying information were discarded (sex, age, study subject and semester).
- Due to copyright restrictions, aggregated data on the English proficiency test are provided in the participant-level dataset.
- Ordinary scientific abstracts and plain language summaries are freely available at https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp. Their DOIs are provided in the datasets and in the corresponding article.
- Code for computing word counts and readability indices that are included in the datasets is available at:
Stricker, J., Chasiotis, A., Kerwer, M., & Günther, A. (2020). Code to: Scientific abstracts and plain language summaries in psychology: A comparison based on readability indices. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.2723
