In an attempt to display themselves as warm, approachable, and trustworthy, researchers might reveal personal details about themselves (i.e., self-disclosure) when communicating their science to the public. Here, we test whether self-disclosure in science communication can actually increase public trust in science. We present six online experiments (overall N = 2,431), integrate their results in a mini meta-analysis, and report a field experiment in a science museum (N = 480): In sum, our findings suggest that self-disclosure leads to small, but measurable increases in laypeople's feelings of closeness toward researchers and perceptions of researchers' warmth-related trustworthiness; yet, self-disclosure also leads to decreases in competence-related trustworthiness perceptions. The credibility of scientific findings was, overall, unaffected by self-disclosing communication. Findings from the field study further question whether self-disclosure in science communication has any practical relevance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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科学传播变得个人化：科学传播中的自我披露对科学信任的矛盾影响。

为了表现出自己热情、平易近人且值得信赖，研究人员在向公众传播他们的科学成果时可能会透露有关自己的个人详细信息（即自我披露）。在这里，我们测试科学传播中的自我披露是否真的可以增加公众对科学的信任。我们提出了六个在线实验（总共 N = 2,431），将其结果整合到一个小型荟萃分析中，并报告了在科学博物馆进行的现场实验（N = 480）：总而言之，我们的研究结果表明，自我披露会导致小，但外行人对研究人员的亲近感以及对研究人员与热情相关的可信度的看法明显增加；然而，自我表露也会导致与能力相关的可信度认知下降。总体而言，科学发现的可信度不受自我披露交流的影响。实地研究的结果进一步质疑科学传播中的自我表露是否具有任何实际意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。