The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication (Oxford Library of Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190497629 ISBN 13: 9780190497620

Publisher: OUP USA, 2017

Synopsis

Explores what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.

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About the Author

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center. The author of four award winning Oxford University Press books on political and press communications, she is co-founder of FactCheck.org, which researches the veracity of claims made by political players. Its SciCheck feature was launched in 2015 to expose the misuse of scientific evidence in political discourse.

Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School. He is a member of the Cultural Cognition Project, an interdisciplinary team of scholars who use empirical methods to examine the impact of group values on perceptions of risk and science communication.

Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. His research deals with the interface of media, policy, and public opinion. Scheufele has co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences, and vice-chaired the recent Academies' consensus report on "Communicating science effectively: A research agenda."

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190497629
• ISBN 13: 9780190497620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Jamieson Kathleen Hall, Kahan Dan, Scheufele Dietram A.