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Thank you reviewers. 谢谢审稿人。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261416565
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Quasi-universal acceptance of basic science in the United States. 美国对基础科学的近乎普遍接受。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251364407
Jan Pfänder, Lou Kerzreho, Hugo Mercier
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Post-normal science communication? Evidence of third-order thinking among sustainability scientists. 后常态科学传播？可持续发展科学家的三阶思维的证据。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251390482
Marianne Achiam, Alan Irwin
{"title":"Post-normal science communication? Evidence of third-order thinking among sustainability scientists.","authors":"Marianne Achiam, Alan Irwin","doi":"10.1177/09636625251390482","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251390482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mounting socio-environmental crises have prompted calls for post-normal sustainability science, emphasising complexity, uncertainty, and epistemic pluralism, and framing science communication as dialogical and reflexive. However, previous research has identified a gap between these ideals and actual practices, where conventional norms of objectivity and expert authority often prevail. Drawing on Irwin's (2021) framework of socio-technical orders of thinking, we analyse interviews with 12 leading Danish sustainability scientists. Our thematic analysis shows that scientists pragmatically navigate between first-order (expert-led), second-order (inclusive), and third-order (reflexive and power-aware) modes of thinking. While third-order thinking emerges as integral to sustainability science, traditional assumptions about authority and neutrality continue to shape scientists' communication practices. These findings invite science communication scholars to view sustainability science as a fertile ground for developing and testing pluralistic, reflexive, and power-aware communication models, while also learning from the situated practices of scientists who already navigate these complexities in context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"159-176"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145597800","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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Does "distance lend enchantment"? Public attitudes to deepfake technology in the United States. “距离带来魅力”吗？美国公众对深度造假技术的态度。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251374850
Elena Denia, John Durant
{"title":"Does \"distance lend enchantment\"? Public attitudes to deepfake technology in the United States.","authors":"Elena Denia, John Durant","doi":"10.1177/09636625251374850","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251374850","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe a focus group study of public perceptions of \"deepfake\" technology, that is, digitally manipulated videos that show people saying or doing things they never really did. The study was designed to explore the relationship between degree of closeness to or familiarity with technology and attitudes toward it. We find that in this case, publics that are closer have more positive and nuanced attitudes. In such cases, at least, it appears that distance does not lend enchantment. We suggest why this may be the case and propose further related research designed to test the conclusions reached here.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"236-252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12852486/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145373024","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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Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes. 问题倡导者和诚实经纪人：美国和德国科学家参与COVID-19政策争议。
IF 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251371565
Nils Bienzeisler
{"title":"Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes.","authors":"Nils Bienzeisler","doi":"10.1177/09636625251371565","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251371565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study examines the intersection of science and politics by analyzing the involvement of <i>N</i> = 205 U.S. and <i>N</i> = 174 German scientists in policy disputes during the COVID-19 pandemic. I investigate how scientists integrate themselves into policy disputes. Through a survey, I identify four groups of scientists with specific self-images regarding their roles in policy disputes: <i>Moderate Mainstreamers, Issue Advisors, Issue Advocates, and Honest Brokers</i>. Furthermore, the findings reveal differences in how these groups of scientists perceive the importance of science in policy-making: Particularly U.S.-based <i>Issue Advocates</i> wish for science to direct policy-making. In addition, I find that pandemic researchers overwhelmingly do not support political causes by selectively communicating political advice. I present empirically evidence that pandemic researchers sought to clarify the relevance of research during the pandemic, but did not attempt to distort policy disputes dishonestly.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"177-196"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12852491/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309573","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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Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims. 政治意识形态驱动对专家及其主张的看法。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251372081
Rodrigo Reyes Cordova
{"title":"Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims.","authors":"Rodrigo Reyes Cordova","doi":"10.1177/09636625251372081","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251372081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>US conservatives are often seen as distrusting scientists, and liberals as more trusting. This article examines how alignment between an expert's field and individual political ideology affects claims perceptions. US adults (<i>N</i> = 1054) participated in a pre-registered (https://osf.io/9wnm2) online experiment, indicating their trust in five experts and evaluating the accuracy of four claims. Claims were attributed to experts from impact fields (focused on the consequences of industry and policy), production fields (industry-focused), scientists in general, or no source. Results show that liberals trust all experts more than conservatives and generally perceive claims as more accurate. However, the trust gap between liberals and conservatives is smaller for production experts. While no difference was found between the perceived accuracy of claims attributed to production versus impact experts, expert attribution increased some claims' perceived accuracy. These findings reveal some political-ideology preferences and that attributing a claim to an expert can improve its perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"197-213"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145087865","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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Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample. 在美国样本中关于基因对亲社会和反社会行为影响的信念。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-20 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251375283
Matthew S Lebowitz, Baoyi Shi, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S Appelbaum, Linda Valeri
{"title":"Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample.","authors":"Matthew S Lebowitz, Baoyi Shi, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S Appelbaum, Linda Valeri","doi":"10.1177/09636625251375283","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251375283","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genes are increasingly understood to influence behavior. Research-generally conducted among convenience samples- has suggested that genetic influences tend to be perceived as playing a greater role in positive (e.g. prosocial) behaviors than in negative (e.g. antisocial) behaviors. Several potential bases for this asymmetry have been explored previously. We examined, in a U.S. sample, whether an asymmetry in genetic attributions between prosocial and antisocial behavior would be observed, and if so, what might help to explain it. Results revealed that the asymmetry did occur and appeared to be robustly mediated by an asymmetry between how \"natural\" prosocial and antisocial behavior are perceived to be. Genetic attributions were also lower on average when the individual was described as African American, especially as an African American man. These findings provide further evidence that genetic attributions are endorsed selectively, in ways that appear to reflect pre-existing psychological motivations and views about human nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"253-266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145337646","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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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 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub 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":"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":"24-43"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","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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When AI sees hotter: Overestimation bias in large language model climate assessments. 当人工智能看到更热：大型语言模型气候评估中的高估偏差。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/09636625251351575
Tenzin Tamang, Ruilin Zheng
{"title":"When AI sees hotter: Overestimation bias in large language model climate assessments.","authors":"Tenzin Tamang, Ruilin Zheng","doi":"10.1177/09636625251351575","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625251351575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a novel form of media, capable of generating human-like text and facilitating interactive communications. However, these systems are subject to concerns regarding inherent biases, as their training on vast text corpora may encode and amplify societal biases. This study investigates overestimation bias in LLM-generated climate assessments, wherein the impacts of climate change are exaggerated relative to expert consensus. Through non-parametric statistical methods, the study compares expert ratings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report with responses from GPT-family LLMs. Results indicate that LLMs systematically overestimate climate change impacts, and that this bias is more pronounced when the models are prompted in the role of a climate scientist. These findings underscore the critical need to align LLM-generated climate assessments with expert consensus to prevent misperception and foster informed public discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"82-99"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144620888","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 4.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub 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":"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":"44-62"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12741169/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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