There is a worryingly large chasm between scientific consensus and popular opinion.
Roughly one third of Americans are skeptical that humans are primarily responsible for …

Efforts to change the attitudes of creationists, antivaccination advocates, and climate
skeptics by simply providing evidence have had limited success. Motivated reasoning helps …

Some scientifically well-established results—such as the fact that emission of greenhouse
gases produces global warming—are rejected by sizable proportions of the population in …

In this commentary, we embed the volume's contributions on public beliefs about science in
a broader theoretical discussion of motivated political reasoning. The studies presented in …

There is often a curious distinction between what the scientific community and the general
population believe to be true of dire scientific issues, and this skepticism tends to vary …

This paper supplies a compact synthesis of the empirical literature on misconceptions of and
misinformation about decision-relevant science. The incidence and impact of …

It is a striking—yet all too familiar—fact about human beings that our belief-forming
processes can be so distorted by fears, desires, and prejudices that an otherwise sensible …

Although nearly all domain experts agree that carbon dioxide emissions are altering the
world's climate, segments of the public remain unconvinced by the scientific evidence …

Some scientific propositions are so well established that they are no longer debated by the
relevant scientific community, such as the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are altering …

When the scientific method yields discoveries that imperil people's lifestyle or worldviews or
impinge on corporate vested interests, the public and political response can be anything but …