Communication
Selected Recent Publications
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. This chapter reviews the literature on sacred values in political conflict and proposes practical suggestions for negotiating amidst them.
We report results from a multi-national study involving 25 samples in 24 countries and 17 languages that analyzes how laypeople interpret verbal descriptions of uncertainty used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
We built on the health communication and graph comprehension literature to inform electricity bill design, with the goal of improving understanding, preferences for the presented communication, and intentions to save electricity.
We describe the effect of a deliberative democracy forum to identify energy policy priorities.
. We investigate the public's ability to perceive the risk of tornadoes from the weather that they see around them.
Describes the development and validation of the Scientific Reasoning Scale, which measures nonscientists' ability to evaluate the quality of scientific evidence.
Faria, F.; Klima, K; Posen, I.D., Azevedo, I. A New Approach of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Outreach in Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Decision Making. Accepted at Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 2015. We describe current STEM outreach activities and qualitatively compare these to the Summer Center for Climate, Energy, and Environmental Decision Making.
A review of theory and method for communicating science relevant to recipients' decisions.
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1317504111 A review of theory and method for communicating scientific uncertainty.
This randomized trial explores why FDA press releases with neutral terms and that routinely explain the limited evidence supporting accelerating approval might help consumers make more accurate judgments about drugs with breakthrough designation.
Acknowledgement of political identity and immersion in practical climate change information overrode the power of political identity, allowing people to learn about the climate change impacts affecting their lives.
A method to assess the usefulness of climate change decision aids for informed decision making.
Framing actions to meet the challenge of climate change as building "resilience" enhanced risk perceptions but decreased motivation.
The development of science communications requires sustained and meaningful collaboration between natural and social scientists that presents challenges, which can ultimately be overcome.