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May 25, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Public understanding of science

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HCHuman Sciences Research Council

Key Points

  • The aim is to investigate how the public's attitudes, knowledge, and communication shape the understanding of science.
  • Framework analysis of public attitudes and values towards science
  • Review of communication programs related to scientific understanding
  • Examination of the relationship dynamics between public perception and scientific authority.
  • Identified the diverse attitudes and knowledge bases within the public affecting science understanding
  • Highlighted the role of effective communication in bridging gaps between science and public perception
  • Proposed a reciprocal model where both science and public influence each other.

Abstract

In pursuing a research agenda on the public and science, future research endeavors may encompass the dimensions of (i) the heterogeneous nature of society; (ii) the attitudes, values, and knowledge of the general public; and (iii) the dimension of communication and awareness programs. This framework would consider both science and the public as important stakeholders in the relationship and acknowledges that each affects the other, rather than previous frameworks which gave science a position of power and perceived the public to be more or less deficient.

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Human Sciences Research Council (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a13e7a80e02ee3982d324f6https://doi.org/10.14749/32387334
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