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Dietram A. Scheufele
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 230
Citations - 23402
Dietram A. Scheufele is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Public opinion. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 215 publications receiving 20722 citations. Previous affiliations of Dietram A. Scheufele include University of South Carolina & Morgridge Institute for Research.
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Religious beliefs and public attitudes toward nanotechnology in Europe and the United States
TL;DR: The results show that respondents in the United States were significantly less likely to agree that nanotechnology is morally acceptable than respondents in many European countries, even after controlling for national research productivity and measures of science performance for high-school students.
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Science communication as political communication
TL;DR: How and why it will be increasingly important for science communicators to draw from these different literatures to ensure that the voice of the scientific community is heard in the broader societal debates surrounding science is discussed.
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Nonparticipation as Self-Censorship: Publicly Observable Political Activity in a Polarized Opinion Climate
TL;DR: The authors found that people who are relatively more influenced by the climate of opinion when choosing whether or not to voice an opinion, measured with the Willingness to Self-Censor scale, are also relatively less likely to engage in public political activities.
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Scientists worry about some risks more than the public
Dietram A. Scheufele,Elizabeth A. Corley,Sharon Dunwoody,Tsung-Jen Shih,Elliott D. Hillback,David H. Guston +5 more
TL;DR: A comparison between two recent national surveys among nanoscientists and the general public in the US shows that, in general, nanoscienceists are more optimistic than the public about the potential benefits of nanotechnology.
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Communicating science in social settings
TL;DR: Four areas in which empirical social science helps clarify intuitive but sometimes faulty assumptions about the social-level mechanisms of science communication are discussed and an agenda for bench and social scientists is outlined to guide more effective communication efforts at the societal level in the future.