Effective public engagement with complex technologies requires a nuanced understanding
of how different audiences make sense of and communicate disruptive technologies with …

Building public will for climate action requires designing messages for different audiences.
Previous studies that identified groups based on similar beliefs, behavior, and political …

Synthetic gene drive approaches are nascent technologies with potential applicability for
pest control for conservation purposes. Responsible science mandates that society be …

Populism typically pits political elites against “the virtuous people.” A distinct variant of
populism (“science-related populism”) extends beyond politics, targeting academic elites …

The term public understanding of science (PUS) has a dual meaning. First, it covers a field of
event activities that aim at bringing science closer to the people, at promoting public …

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for climate policy engagement that is focused
on building the social conditions conducive to support for climate policy. Despite the …

Climate change is one of the primary challenges facing humanity and a topic of controversial
public debates. Research on public attitudes toward climate change has a long tradition in …

When scholars, politicians or stakeholders talk about science communication, they talk
about, for example, the public understanding of science and technology, public …

We explored the structure of public attitudes on whether self-driving vehicles (SDVs) should
be allowed on public roads, through a four-way typology of attitudes (positive, negative …

This article seeks to expand the literature on science attitudes by developing an empirical
typology of people's engagement choices and investigating their sociodemographic …