risk communication

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...