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Chinese public risk perception and acceptance of Facial Recognition Technology applied in law enforcement. 中国公众对面部识别技术应用于执法的风险认知和接受程度。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241300894
Min Wang, Kunran Zhang, Haomiao Xu
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The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies. 科学阴谋论对生物技术怀疑论的影响。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241300896
Mathew D Marques, John R Kerr, Arthur A Stukas, Jim McLennan
{"title":"The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies.","authors":"Mathew D Marques, John R Kerr, Arthur A Stukas, Jim McLennan","doi":"10.1177/09636625241300896","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241300896","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many conspiracy theories implicate scientists and science. We investigated the impact of exposure to scientific conspiracies about biotechnologies. Across three preregistered online studies (<i>N</i>s = 1,000), participants who read information about conspiracies involving agribiotechnology companies or biobank scientists were more likely to endorse conspiracies. Other effects of exposure to conspiracy information were mixed. In Study 1, reading about an agricultural biotechnology conspiracy had a small significant effect on reducing intentions to eat genetically modified food. In Study 2, exposure to a conspiracy involving biobank scientists decreased support for biobanks, mediated by decreased trust in biobank scientists. In Study 3, this conspiracy had no effect on wider beliefs of the role of science in society (science populism), nor support of genetically modified food-promoting policies. Overall, we found that exposure to conspiracies involving scientific claims increased conspiracy belief endorsement and can further negative effects. However, the effects of conspiracies on science populism appear limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"646-664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12177199/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773713","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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Motivation, self-determination, and reflexivity of researchers in comedic public engagement. 喜剧公众参与中研究人员的动机、自我决定和反身性。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241291464
Áine Gallagher, Claudia Fracchiolla, Jessamyn A Fairfield
{"title":"Motivation, self-determination, and reflexivity of researchers in comedic public engagement.","authors":"Áine Gallagher, Claudia Fracchiolla, Jessamyn A Fairfield","doi":"10.1177/09636625241291464","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241291464","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding motivation and impact of participation in public engagement programs is crucial for fostering dialogue between researchers and the public. Using Self-Determination Theory and Reflexive Thematic Analysis, in this study we analyzed motivation and impact on identity of researchers participating in Bright Club Ireland, a public engagement project where academic researchers learn to use stand-up comedy as an informal and accessible means of communicating their research, then perform at a public-facing variety night alongside professional comedians. Through semi-structured interviews and focus groups, we found that participation in Bright Club is largely intrinsically motivated, driven by researchers' desire to gain skills, be recognized as experts, and present their own perspectives on their disciplines. These findings shed light on how participation in public engagement can promote a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness among researchers, and highlight the role of creative expression in facilitating reflection and growth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"628-645"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12177192/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548325","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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Rapidly diverging public trust in science in the United States. 美国公众对科学的信任迅速分化。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241302970
Manjana Milkoreit, E Keith Smith
{"title":"Rapidly diverging public trust in science in the United States.","authors":"Manjana Milkoreit, E Keith Smith","doi":"10.1177/09636625241302970","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241302970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trust in science is crucial to resolving societal problems. Americans across political ideologies have high levels of trust in science-a stable pattern observed over the past 50 years. Yet, trust in science varies by individual and group characteristics and faces several threats, from political actors, increased political polarization, or global crises. We revisit historical trends of trust in science among Americans by political orientation. We find steadily diverging trends by political views since the 1990s, and a drastically and rapidly opening gap since 2018. Recent unprecedented changes are driven not only by decreases in trust among conservatives but also by increases among liberals. Existing theoretical accounts do not fully explain these patterns. Diverging attitudes toward the institution of science can diminish capacity for collective problem-solving, eroding the shared foundation for decision-making and political discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"616-627"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12177194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792522","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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Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions. 认知信念、科学民粹主义和社交媒体使用对气候变化误解的影响。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-29 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251343510
Ming Bryan Wang, Heather Akin
{"title":"Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions.","authors":"Ming Bryan Wang, Heather Akin","doi":"10.1177/09636625251343510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251343510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While much research has revealed the prevalence of climate change misinformation on social media, there is no conclusive evidence about its impact on cultivating public misperceptions. Even less work has been done to examine how social media use may condition the relationships between cognitive orientations, such as epistemic and science populism beliefs, and climate change misperceptions. This study fills this gap by analyzing data from a national representative survey of 1405 US adults. Results confirmed the relationships between cognitive orientations and climate change misperceptions. While neither mainstream nor alternative social media use had a direct impact, both types of social media use conditioned the relationships between cognitive orientations and climate change misperceptions. This study's findings suggest that social media use's adverse impact on climate change misperceptions may have been overstated.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251343510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530443","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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Contesting state expertise after COVID-19. COVID-19后国家专业知识的竞争。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-29 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251347063
Gabriel V Lévesque
{"title":"Contesting state expertise after COVID-19.","authors":"Gabriel V Lévesque","doi":"10.1177/09636625251347063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251347063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research examines how the transformational experience of the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes trust in science, expertise and public institutions in its aftermath. This article extends this scholarship by asking how the transformation of societal norms about expertise induced by the pandemic experience shapes social movements that contest state expertise. Using interview data with participants from an ongoing environmental health mobilization in Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec, Canada), this article highlights how participants negotiate their precarious status as challengers of expertise in a post-COVID world. First, I examine the direct and indirect evidence of politicized expertise that participants draw on to motivate their distrust. Second, I show how participants negotiate the boundary between claims of COVID-related groups labeled as conspiracist and their own. Overall, this article contributes to better understanding how mobilized citizens navigate changing norms around trust in science.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251347063"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530442","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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Make America quiet again: Achieving socially robust knowledge on noise pollution through citizen science. 让美国再次安静：通过公民科学获得关于噪音污染的社会知识。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251338190
Kirsten R Vegt, Janneke E Elberse, Bastiaan T Rutjens, Laurens K Hessels
{"title":"Make America quiet again: Achieving socially robust knowledge on noise pollution through citizen science.","authors":"Kirsten R Vegt, Janneke E Elberse, Bastiaan T Rutjens, Laurens K Hessels","doi":"10.1177/09636625251338190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251338190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Socially robust knowledge is scientific knowledge accepted by society for its contextual relevance. Citizen science, involving non-professional scientists, offers a promising approach to developing such knowledge. This study examines how citizen science fosters socially robust knowledge through a case-study on noise pollution's impact on health and well-being in the Dutch village of America. Citizen scientists partnered with researchers of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment to study train noise, employing diverse data-collection methods. Interviews with participants revealed trust in this approach and outcomes, contrasting with conventional noise-pollution research. The integration of extended expertise and real-world context, coupled with the project's iterative feedback loop, ensured that findings were accurate and locally relevant. This case-study underscores citizen science's potential to create relevant and adaptable policy-relevant science, offering concrete insights into the key elements that contribute to the social robustness of scientific outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251338190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498438","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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Mediating trust in content about science: Assessing trust cues in digital media environments. 中介对科学内容的信任：评估数字媒体环境中的信任线索。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251337709
Justin T Schröder, Lars Guenther
{"title":"Mediating trust in content about science: Assessing trust cues in digital media environments.","authors":"Justin T Schröder, Lars Guenther","doi":"10.1177/09636625251337709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251337709","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intermediaries such as (digital) media use trust cues in their content, that is, information and linguistic markers that present public audiences reasons for trusting scientists, scientific organizations, and the science system. <i>Trust cues</i> refer to dimensions of trust in science such as expertise, integrity, benevolence, transparency, and dialogue. Because digital media environments are expected to be heterogeneous in content, the sources of trust cues, characteristics of objects of trust in science (e.g. the gender of scientists), and their impact on public trust in science may vary. In our quantitative content analysis, we identified trust cues across several sources of scientific information (<i>n</i> = 906) and examined their heterogeneity in digital media environments. Our results reveal journalism as the most important source for trust cues and that scientists are the most prevalent object of trust-with female scientists being underrepresented. Differences across (digital) media imply varying impacts on public trust in science.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251337709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227279","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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How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online. 你怎么反驳否认科学的表情包呢？模因反应对于回应网上的科学否认可能会适得其反。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251341509
Hannah Little, Justin Sulik
{"title":"How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online.","authors":"Hannah Little, Justin Sulik","doi":"10.1177/09636625251341509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251341509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Science denial 'memes' are a viral form of communication that attempt to undermine complex scientific ideas using memorable soundbites. These memes misrepresent the scientific content they are 'debunking', making responding to them challenging. To identify common strategies, we analysed Twitter/X responses to the anti-evolution meme 'why are there still monkeys?'. Strategies included literal explanations about why the reasoning behind the meme is flawed, and analogies that mirror the original meme to varying degrees (e.g. in structure and/or domain). We evaluated different response strategies using an experiment with participants from the United States who either endorsed or denied evolution. Participants rated their understanding of the original meme and different response strategies, and how effective and persuasive they found them. Across participants, literal explanations were rated more understandable, effective and persuasive than analogical responses. Memed rebuttals may thus be a counter-productive strategy for responding to science denial online.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251341509"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192339","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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Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward. 科学家和科研机构在公众沟通中的紧张关系：来源、维度和前进方向。
IF 3.5 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251343507
Massimiano Bucchi, Mike S Schäfer
{"title":"Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward.","authors":"Massimiano Bucchi, Mike S Schäfer","doi":"10.1177/09636625251343507","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251343507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tensions between scientific organizations' conceptions and demands regarding public communication on the one hand and the public communication of individual scientists on the other hand exist and may even become more prevalent. Such tensions revolve around issues of institutional reputation management and academic freedom, centralized messaging and individual autonomy, or scientific neutrality and political engagement, and can be catalyzed by changes in media landscapes and sociocultural contexts surrounding scientific institutions. This essay identifies sources and key dimensions of these tensions. It also explores how institutions manage such tensions and how scientists respond, ranging from loyalty to institutional policies to open dissent, self-censorship, and exit. To mitigate conflicts, it advocates for inclusive and transparent communication policies that balance institutional goals with scientific autonomy, fostering trust and ensuring that both organizations and researchers contribute effectively to public discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625251343507"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175337","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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