Citations

When an answer draws on source material, show it and link to it, rather than collapsing it into a confident-sounding summary with no traceable origin.

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What the research says

Citations significantly increase trust, even when the citations are random, but trust drops when users actually click and check them, and more than one citation adds nothing. So they partly function as a credibility placebo; present the effect honestly. 1 2

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