public understanding of science

Do people understand ‘preprints’?

My collaborators and I have a new paper out in Health Communication on public understanding of scientific preprints. In this study, we found that people noticed when a study’s preprint...

New paper in Public Understanding of Science

In this paper, we propose a process-oriented framework for testing the effects of communicating uncertain science to the public.

Communicating COVID-19 Uncertainty

Pandemics are characterized by extreme uncertainty and effective communication is critical to help the public manage this uncertainty. We summarized scholarship on public communication related to uncertainty during the COVID-19...

Virtual Talk: How Lay Audiences Respond to Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty

My coauthors and I just presented a study at the virtual National Communication Association conference. Since the conference was free to attend, I’m sharing the video here.

Scientific uncertainty heightens trust in journalists

Our chapter — “News Coverage of Cancer Research: Does Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty Enhance Credibility?” — was published in the 2018 Routledge book Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media...

Award to study scientific uncertainty from AEJMC

It was back to Washington, DC, in August for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. This year, I received the Graduate Student Research Award from the Mass...