The Public's Bounded Understanding of Science
The Public's Bounded Understanding of Science
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DOI：
10.1080/00461520.2014.921572
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
8.8
通讯作者：
Goldman, Susan R.
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文献类型：
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作者：
Bromme, Rainer;Goldman, Susan R.
这本特刊《理解公众对科学的理解：心理学方法》讨论了人们在理解科学时面临的一些挑战。我们关注的是人们对科学主题不可避免的有限理解；研究必须解决人们如何在健康和医学等科学领域做出决定，而不是拥有领域专家所特有的深入而广泛的理解。这些文章反映了关于公众对科学的理解的两大研究方向--寻求通过更好的教学来增进理解的学习取向，以及侧重于对科学的态度和对科学家的信任的传播取向。理解科学的挑战包括确定信息的相关性，科学真理的暂时性，区分科学和非科学问题，以及确定什么是真的，什么是假的。研究公众对科学的理解可能有助于现代社会思维和推理的心理学理论。
This introduction to the special issue Understanding the Public Understanding of Science: Psychological Approaches discusses some of the challenges people face in understanding science. We focus on people's inevitably bounded understanding of science topics; research must address how people make decisions in science domains such as health and medicine without having the deep and extensive understanding that is characteristic of domain experts. The articles reflect two broad streams of research on the public understanding of science-the learning orientation that seeks to improve understanding through better instruction and the communications orientation that focuses on attitudes about science and trust in scientists. Challenges to understanding science include determining the relevance of information, the tentativeness of scientific truth, distinguishing between scientific and nonscientific issues, and determining what is true and what is false. Studying the public understanding of science can potentially contribute to psychological theories of thinking and reasoning in modern societies.