Educators have been increasingly concerned with what can be done about “post-truth”
problems—that is, threats to people's abilities to know what is true—such as the spread of …

In today's world shaped by technology and the natural sciences, knowledge and skills
related to experimentation are crucial, especially given growing public debates about …

At a time when pseudoscience threatens the survival of communities, understanding this
vulnerability, and how to reduce it, is paramount. Four preregistered experiments (N= 532 …

Many studies have characterized students' difficulties in understanding and reasoning about
scientific mechanisms. Some of those studies have drawn implications on teaching …

Today, many science communicators are using social media to share scientific information
with citizens, but, as research has shown, fostering conversational exchanges remains a …

Despite growing concerns and rapidly expanding research about health misinformation,
answers to some fundamental questions remain unclear. Among the open questions are the …

Data visualizations can empower an audience to make informed decisions. At the same
time, deceptive representations of data can lead to inaccurate interpretations while still …

While scholars have highlighted how science communication reifies forms of structural
inequality, especially race and gender, we examine the challenges science communication …

The essential focus of this chapter is the question of what does it mean to be literate in
science? This chapter will advance three broad answers. In 2007, Roberts argued for two …

Given concerns about the persuasive power of video misinformation on social media for
health topics, we test two techniques–exposure to a news literacy video and user corrections …