New Study Examines Scientists’ Participation in Public Life
In a new co-authored study with John Besley and Sang Wa Oh at the journal Public Understanding of Science, we expand on our recent work examining how scientists as a group perceive and understand public opinion, the media, and the policy process. In this most recent analysis, we focus specifically on the motivations, beliefs, and conditions...
The Science of Science Communication: National Academies Event Examines Our Inconvenient Minds and Social Identities
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of research from the social and behavioral sciences offering insight on how individuals, social groups and political systems come to understand and make decisions related to science, the environment, technology, and medicine. Research in this area stretches across disciplinary boundaries, university departments, funding agencies and field-specific...
Miller-McCune on How Ideology Shapes Our Perceptions
At Miller-McCune magazine, Emily Badger discusses several key themes of the Climate Shift report, focusing in part on how the reaction from several bloggers connects to the findings of Chapter 4. The full article is worth a careful read but here is an excerpt: *** Nisbet contends that all of us — scientists, even —...
