When research is me-search: How researchers’ motivation to pursue a topic affects laypeople’s trust in science

• Marlene Sophie Altenmüller ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marlene.altenmueller@psy.lmu.de

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1714-3601

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• Leonie Lucia Lange,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Mario Gollwitzer

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-4793

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