APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Leverage the Persuasive Power of Technology-Related Scientific Discoveries to Close America's Political Divide on Support for Science

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Social

  • Tingyu Chen
    Stanford University
  • Liying Wang
    Stanford University
  • Zuxin Li
    Gunn High School
  • Geoffrey Cohen
    Stanford University
  • Alice Kathmandu
    Stanford University

Abstract

American liberals reported much stronger support for science than conservatives. We theorized and found that the political divide is wider on support for basic science, and narrower on support for technology-related science in a U.S. national representative sample and two online behavioral experiments.

Media/Technology

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