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'It benefits every moment': Understandings of and engagements in science-related practices in everyday life.
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-26 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241309055
Kaisa Torkkeli, Milla Karvonen, Daria Pritup, Johanna Enqvist
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Moral expression of "experts" and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese.
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241310147
Yipeng Xi, Weiyu Zhang
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A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries. 科学政治极化的四级模型：来自10个欧洲国家的证据。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241306352
Roderik Rekker
{"title":"A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries.","authors":"Roderik Rekker","doi":"10.1177/09636625241306352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241306352","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Citizens' trust in science increasingly depends on their political leaning. Structural equation models on survey data from 10 European countries (<i>N</i> = 5306) demonstrate that this <i>science polarization</i> can be captured by a model with four levels of generalization. Voters of populist parties distrust the <i>system and elite</i> in general, which indirectly fuels a broad science skepticism. At another level, right-wingers have less trust in <i>science as a whole</i> than left-wingers. After accounting for this general skepticism, left-wingers and right-wingers are, however, similarly prone to contest ideology-incongruent <i>research fields</i> and <i>specific claims</i>. These findings have three implications. First, research on science skepticism should carefully consider all four levels and their interplay. Second, the science polarization between populist and non-populist voters has fundamentally different origins than the effect of left-right ideology. Third, a four-level model can expose ideological symmetries in science rejection that have previously remained largely undetected in observational studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625241306352"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes. 对与错的问题：道德科学和技术态度的分裂属性。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241304058
Robin Bayes
{"title":"A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes.","authors":"Robin Bayes","doi":"10.1177/09636625241304058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241304058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, scholars have theorized that one factor enflaming public divides over science and technology is moralization: an individual's perception that their position on an issue is rooted in fundamental moral right and wrong. In this article, I provide evidence for this proposition across five pre-registered hypotheses about the divisive attributes of moralized attitudes in the context of science and technology. Using public opinion data in the United States on three issues-combating climate change, developing gene editing therapies for humans, and labeling genetically modified food-this study demonstrates that moralized attitudes have the potential to exacerbate resistance to scientific evidence and hostility between those with opposing positions. These findings provide strong proof of concept that studying variation in the degree to which individuals moralize issues is an important future direction for understanding persistent public divides over science and technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625241304058"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Communicating biodiversity research on YouTube: An experimental comparison of scientists and third-party presenters. 在YouTube上传播生物多样性研究：科学家和第三方主持人的实验比较。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241300646
Selina A Ruzi, Adrian A Smith, Nicole M Lee
{"title":"Communicating biodiversity research on YouTube: An experimental comparison of scientists and third-party presenters.","authors":"Selina A Ruzi, Adrian A Smith, Nicole M Lee","doi":"10.1177/09636625241300646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241300646","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Online videos are a popular medium for science communication. These videos can be presented from many perspectives, including scientists sharing their own work or a third-party presenting research findings. A mixed between- and within-subjects experiment (<i>n</i> = 620) was conducted in the United States to assess the impact of narrative perspective on the communication objectives of increasing knowledge, changing perceptions, and influencing behavior related to bee diversity. Results indicate that watching a video presented by a scientist was associated with higher levels of perceived competence and a higher likelihood to mention a person or persons when recalling the video. However, we did not find significant effects of narrative perspective on knowledge gain and behavioral intentions to help support bee diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625241300646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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COVID scientists as rhetorical citizens: Persuasive op-eds and public debate over science policy. COVID科学家是修辞公民：关于科学政策的有说服力的专栏和公开辩论。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241304064
Collin Syfert, Leah Ceccarelli
{"title":"COVID scientists as rhetorical citizens: Persuasive op-eds and public debate over science policy.","authors":"Collin Syfert, Leah Ceccarelli","doi":"10.1177/09636625241304064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241304064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To discover the means of persuasion available to experts who embrace the responsibility of public communication in times of crisis, this study uses a text/countertext method of rhetorical analysis on U.S. newspaper editorials by scientists writing about COVID-19 policy. Model arguments to opposition audiences on pandemic restrictions and vaccine policy were selected for close reading. We examined how writers in a pro-con debate in a centrist newspaper appealed mainly to like-minded readers, failing to make arguments designed to change the opinions of those who did not already agree with them. The lack of rhetorical sensitivity in these editorials suggests a need for scientists to better utilize existing resources of language and argument when addressing opposition audiences. Exemplary editorials to opposition audiences in right-leaning and left-leaning newspapers were then examined to illustrate more promising strategies of public persuasion in highly partisan times.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625241304064"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers' comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press. 气候观念之争：读者对葡萄牙报刊气候变化文章评论中的少数派论述。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241254505
Nuno Monteiro Ramos, Paula Castro
{"title":"The climate <i>battles of ideas</i>: Minority discourses in readers' comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press.","authors":"Nuno Monteiro Ramos, Paula Castro","doi":"10.1177/09636625241254505","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241254505","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Today, the dominant climate change discourses affirm its anthropogenic nature and the urgency for policies. However, minority discourses remain active in the worldwide debate, refining arguments beyond simple denial-as shown regarding formal/official discourses of the United States and European far-right parties. This makes it necessary to examine the public understanding of climate change in everyday, informal minority discourses, looking at how they work for broadening societal space for \"quarantining\" the transformative potential of climate change meanings/policies. For this, we analyze readers' comments on climate change articles from two Portuguese newspapers, drawing from the frameworks of neutralization techniques and meaning barriers. Findings show that although denial of anthropogenic climate change remains, discursive efforts concentrate on person-stigmatizing depictions of climate change actors, delegitimized as \"elites\" in populist vocabularies, reflecting a consistent alignment between everyday discourses and those of the United States and European official far-right. We discuss the functions this pattern may have for the growth of climate change minority positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"59-75"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673290/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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'Follow the science': Popular trust in scientific experts during the coronavirus pandemic. 跟着科学走"：冠状病毒大流行期间民众对科学专家的信任。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241253968
Ben Seyd, Joseph A Hamm, Will Jennings, Lawrence McKay, Viktor Valgarðsson, Meridith Anness
{"title":"'Follow the science': Popular trust in scientific experts during the coronavirus pandemic.","authors":"Ben Seyd, Joseph A Hamm, Will Jennings, Lawrence McKay, Viktor Valgarðsson, Meridith Anness","doi":"10.1177/09636625241253968","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241253968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The coronavirus pandemic increased the role played by scientific advisers in counselling governments and citizens on issues around public health. This raises questions about how citizens evaluate scientists, and in particular the grounds on which they trust them. Previous studies have identified various factors associated with trust in scientists, although few have systematically explored a range of judgements and their relative effects. This study takes advantage of scientific advisers' heightened public profile during the pandemic to explore how people's trust in scientists is shaped by perceptions of their features and traits, along with evaluations of their behaviour and role within the decision-making process. The study also considers people's trust in politicians, thereby enabling us to identify whether trust in scientists reflects similar or distinctive considerations to trust in partisan actors. Data are derived from specially designed conjoint experiments and surveys of nationally representative samples in Britain and the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"2-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673289/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals. 纯语言摘要是否比科学摘要更易读？来自六种生物医学和生命科学期刊的证据。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241252565
Ju Wen, Lan Yi
{"title":"Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals.","authors":"Ju Wen, Lan Yi","doi":"10.1177/09636625241252565","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241252565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent decades, members of the general public have become increasingly reliant on findings of scientific studies for decision-making. However, scientific writing usually features a heavy use of technical language, which may pose challenges for people outside of the scientific community. To alleviate this issue, plain language summaries were introduced to provide a brief summary of scientific papers in clear and accessible language. Despite increasing attention paid to the research of plain language summaries, little is known about whether these summaries are readable for the intended audiences. Based on a large corpus sampled from six biomedical and life sciences journals, the present study examined the readability and jargon use of plain language summaries and scientific abstracts on a technical level. It was found that (1) plain language summaries were more readable than scientific abstracts, (2) the reading grade levels of plain language summaries were moderately correlated with that of scientific abstracts, (3) researchers used less jargon in plain language summaries than in scientific abstracts, and (4) the readability of and the jargon use in both plain language summaries and scientific abstracts exceeded the recommended threshold for the general public. The findings were discussed with possible explanations. Implications for academic writing and scientific communication were offered.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"114-126"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141088972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Is science to be trusted? How environmentally active youths relate to science in social media. 科学可信吗？热衷环保的青少年如何在社交媒体上与科学建立联系。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241249915
Karin M Gustafsson
{"title":"Is science to be trusted? How environmentally active youths relate to science in social media.","authors":"Karin M Gustafsson","doi":"10.1177/09636625241249915","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241249915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown a great distrust among youths toward political representatives, who they demand should \"listen to the science.\" However, less research has been done on youths' own trust in science. This study explores and explains how youths who are environmentally active in two different environmental youth organizations relate to science in social media, whether they trust science, and how youths' relation to science creates a discursive context in which they may develop their identity. The study uses the approach of discourse analysis to examine social media content published on Facebook by <i>Fridays for Future Sweden</i> and <i>Fältbiologerna</i> (the Swedish Field Biologists). The study shows (i) how subject positions for <i>scientists</i> and <i>youth</i> are created in relation to one another based on different expressions of youths' trust in science and (ii) how environmental youth organizations, by identifying with science, make youths important actors in the discourse on climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"76-91"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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