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Are Chinese scientists willing to engage with the public on genetically modified foods? 中国科学家愿意在转基因食品问题上与公众接触吗？
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261491174
Yixuan Guo, Marcia D de Barcellos, Lawton L Nalley, Hans De Steur
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Shaping science and society through law: Governance logic and public roles in the revised Law of the People's Republic of China on the Popularization of Science and Technology. 以法律塑造科学与社会：修订后的《中华人民共和国科学技术普及法》中的治理逻辑和公共角色。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261486280
Rongrong Ren, Bingyuan Chen, Zhaoyang Sun
{"title":"Shaping science and society through law: Governance logic and public roles in the revised Law of the People's Republic of China on the Popularization of Science and Technology.","authors":"Rongrong Ren, Bingyuan Chen, Zhaoyang Sun","doi":"10.1177/09636625261486280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261486280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, the 2002 and 2024 revised editions of the <i>Law of the People's Republic of China on the Popularization of Science and Technology</i> (\"the Law\") are examined to explore how the state shapes the science-society relationship. Relevant explanatory reports on the revision of the Law, policies, and central/local materials about the implementation of the first \"National Science Popularization Month\" are reviewed. Based on four dimensions (political-normative, organizational-responsibility, capacity-instrument, and oversight-accountability), the new Law is proposed to promote science popularization from \"an educational and cultural activity to cultivate individual scientific quality\" to \"a basic governance project that serves a powerful country in science and technology, Chinese-style modernization, and high-level self-reliance in science and technology.\" Three cases of popularization efforts, urban, rural and mobile, reveal that the Law increases the visibility and organizational density of science popularization. However, the materials also reveal that public participation is defined mainly as visiting, experiencing, volunteering, and cooperating with governance, rather than issue identification, decision-making, or cogovernance. Therefore, two concepts, \"legalized science popularization\" and a \"state-mobilized literacy model,\" are proposed, and it is asserted that instead of going beyond a simple deficit model or becoming a participation model, the Chinese case presents a hybrid form of science popularization characterized by law centering, multiorganizational coordination and state mobilization support.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261486280"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149217032","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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Why research on science communication needs more meta-analyses. 为什么科学传播研究需要更多的元分析。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261489946
Niels G Mede, Mike S Schäfer, Elisa Tedaldi
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Threatened by science: Can affirmations alleviate motivated science rejection? 受到科学的威胁：肯定能减轻有动机的科学排斥吗？
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-19 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261445597
Luzia Heusler, Marlene Sophie Altenmüller
{"title":"Threatened by science: Can affirmations alleviate motivated science rejection?","authors":"Luzia Heusler, Marlene Sophie Altenmüller","doi":"10.1177/09636625261445597","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261445597","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People often reject scientific evidence that is at odds with their previous beliefs. Here, we examine the role of threat in such motivated science rejection and whether affirmations in science communication can effectively reduce threat, thereby alleviating motivated rejection. Across three experimental studies (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 2728) set in written interview scenarios about the alleged effects of gender-conscious language (i.e. using language that explicitly accounts for all genders, instead of, e.g. using generic masculine forms), we find consistent evidence for threat, especially autonomy threat, as an important driver for motivated rejection of researchers' trustworthiness and evidence credibility. Shared value and autonomy affirmations, however, showed less consistent and, if any, very small effects as modulators of motivated science rejection, questioning their practical relevance in science communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"802-821"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976511","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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When ignorance induces reliance: The role of epistemic knowledge about generative AI in changing health-related decision-making. 当无知导致依赖：关于生成式人工智能的认知知识在改变健康相关决策中的作用。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261442388
Inbal Klein-Avraham, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
{"title":"When ignorance induces reliance: The role of epistemic knowledge about generative AI in changing health-related decision-making.","authors":"Inbal Klein-Avraham, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari","doi":"10.1177/09636625261442388","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261442388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Today's increasing and indiscriminate use of generative artificial intelligence to access science-related information is a serious cause for concern. Here, we investigated the role of knowledge about generative AI in individuals' engagement with AI-generated science-related information. Specifically, we focused on the relationship between epistemic AI knowledge, regarding the features and construction processes that characterize AI output, and individuals' likelihood of changing their dietary decisions following exposure to AI-generated content. Based on two consecutive online surveys with embedded performance tasks, Study I (<i>n</i> = 500) and Study II (<i>n</i> = 800) demonstrated that less epistemic AI knowledge and higher trust in generative AI significantly increase the likelihood of changing decisions and reasoning, often to align with the generative AI's responses. People were also more likely to change their decision in the presence of information reliability cues such as two concordant generative AI responses, regardless of alignment with experts' views or the presence of reliable sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"783-801"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13598304/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822254","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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Measures of public attitudes towards science: A scoping review. 公众对科学态度的测量：范围评估。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261458106
Jessica E Hughes, Kimberley Norris, James D Sauer, Aaron Drummond, Holly Emery, Emilia Hawkey, Victoria J Heinrich, Paul Schokman, Matthew A Palmer
{"title":"Measures of public attitudes towards science: A scoping review.","authors":"Jessica E Hughes, Kimberley Norris, James D Sauer, Aaron Drummond, Holly Emery, Emilia Hawkey, Victoria J Heinrich, Paul Schokman, Matthew A Palmer","doi":"10.1177/09636625261458106","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261458106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role that attitudes towards science plays in science acceptance has received attention in recent years, yet little is known about the ways that public attitudes towards science are conceptualised and measured. To address this, our review sought to identify instruments developed to measure attitudes towards general science or the scientific method for use with adult populations that had been subjected to psychometric analyses. The review protocol was pre-registered and methodology adhered to the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines and PRISMA extension for scoping reviews. Title and abstract screening of 16,658 articles by two independent reviewers identified 783 articles for full-text screening, resulting in 31 articles (29 separate instruments) for inclusion. Psychometric properties were summarised; variations in conceptualisations of attitudes towards science and adherence to best-practice recommendations for scale development were identified. Overall, this research contributes to our ongoing understanding of attitudes towards science and the measurement of this important construct.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"891-916"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13598314/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148430477","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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Reimagining public understanding: Toward an institutional model. 重塑公众理解：走向制度模式。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261474459
Gordon Gauchat, Kassandra Thompson
{"title":"Reimagining public understanding: Toward an institutional model.","authors":"Gordon Gauchat, Kassandra Thompson","doi":"10.1177/09636625261474459","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261474459","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public understanding of science is often framed as either factual knowledge or generalized trust in experts. This article advances an alternative: an institutional model, grounded in cultural awareness of the norms, practices, and boundaries through which science produces credible knowledge. Existing approaches struggle to distinguish scientific controversy from broader social conflict, limiting their ability to explain why science's legitimacy falters in politicized contexts. An institutional perspective instead shifts the focus from individual deficits to science's role as a social system-embedded in tensions between expertise, politics, industry, and democratic accountability. We outline the implications for science communication and public engagement, arguing that meaningful participation requires not only understanding science's institutional role in civic life but also the capacity to evaluate scientific actors against cultural expectations and normative commitments. The article concludes by proposing a research agenda centered on the cultural meaning of science and how its credibility depends on public evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"764-782"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148820031","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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Too sure or not sure enough? Trust may hinge on scientists' uncertainty matching knowledgeable audiences' tolerance for it. 太确定还是不够确定？信任可能取决于科学家的不确定性与知识渊博的观众对它的容忍度。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261448739
Natasha Strydhorst, Asheley R Landrum
{"title":"Too sure or not sure enough? Trust may hinge on scientists' uncertainty matching knowledgeable audiences' tolerance for it.","authors":"Natasha Strydhorst, Asheley R Landrum","doi":"10.1177/09636625261448739","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261448739","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Uncertainty, though integral to scientific practice and advancement, is routinely omitted from science communication. While extensive study has uncovered the effect of this in politicized scientific fields, its influence in unpoliticized sciences is murkier. This survey-experiment study in the USA investigates audience perceptions of communicator trustworthiness when reading excerpts of neuroimaging journalism portraying the field as (a) uncertainty-filled or (b) certain enough to be on the cusp of enabling mind-reading. Findings bolster hitherto mixed results and (exploratorily) suggest perceived communicator trustworthiness may hinge on an author's uncertainty matching audience members' tolerance for uncertainty-when they score high in science literacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"822-839"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148145109","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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Public backlash against science communicators: Conceptualization and qualitative analysis of perceptions, effects, responses, and contextual factors. 公众对科学传播者的强烈反对：观念、效果、反应和语境因素的概念化和定性分析。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261452891
Niels G Mede, Sophia C Volk
{"title":"Public backlash against science communicators: Conceptualization and qualitative analysis of perceptions, effects, responses, and contextual factors.","authors":"Niels G Mede, Sophia C Volk","doi":"10.1177/09636625261452891","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261452891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public backlash against scientists is drawing growing concern. It can come from citizens, politicians, or journalists and ranges from legitimate criticism to harassment and physical attacks. Backlash also affects science communication professionals, yet this has received comparatively little public and scholarly attention. Our study addresses this gap. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 university communicators from multiple countries, we develop a conceptual model of their perceptions of public backlash, its effects on them and their institutions, their response strategies, and contextual factors. We introduce criteria for distinguishing legitimate criticism from illegitimate harassment and describe both negative and positive effects on science communication. The results show proactive and reactive response strategies and highlight the influence of topic characteristics, routes of backlash, and sociopolitical contexts. Overall, they offer a new perspective on the normative imperative for public engagement. We discuss implications for science communication research and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"866-890"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13598313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148158555","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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Does medium matter? Political orientation and variability in scientific self-perceptions. 媒介重要吗？科学自我认知的政治取向和可变性。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261449987
Marcus Mann, Cyrus Schleifer
{"title":"Does medium matter? Political orientation and variability in scientific self-perceptions.","authors":"Marcus Mann, Cyrus Schleifer","doi":"10.1177/09636625261449987","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625261449987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trust in scientists has declined among US conservatives, while belief in science itself remains high among nearly everyone. This indicates a political differentiation of scientific authority where political ideologues are increasingly getting their scientific information from different scientific sources. But beyond pure information consumption, those who have eschewed mainstream scientific authority are also more likely to find support for their scientific identity in a more differentiated medium like the Internet. To examine this possibility, we use the General Social Survey NSF Knowledge scale and a question measuring self-perception of scientific competency to operationalize a concept we call \"scientific humility/arrogance.\" We then compare liberals and conservatives on this measure across self-reported mediums of scientific consumption. We find that accessing scientific information through the Internet has the general effect of humbling extreme liberals with no such effect found among conservatives. We discuss implications for researchers and stakeholders in scientific communication and understandings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"840-865"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148254012","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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