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Michael D. Cobb
Researcher at North Carolina State University
Publications - 22
Citations - 1849
Michael D. Cobb is an academic researcher from North Carolina State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public opinion & Framing (social sciences). The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1743 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael D. Cobb include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Public perceptions about nanotechnology: Risks, benefits and trust
Michael D. Cobb,Jane Macoubrie +1 more
TL;DR: The authors report data from the first representative national phone survey of Americans' perceptions about nanotechnology (N =1536). And they report that the most preferred potential benefit of nanotechnology is new and better ways to detect and treat human diseases, and they identified "losing personal privacy to tiny new surveillance devices" as the most important potential risk to avoid.
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Racial Attitudes and the “New South”
TL;DR: The authors used a measure of racial attitudes designed to overcome possible social desirability effects and found racial prejudice to be still high in the South and markedly higher in the south than the non-South.
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Changing minds: Political arguments and political persuasion
TL;DR: This article found that con arguments were more persuasive when they were also hard and easy, while the intensity of partisanship mediated only on health care, a split that did not emerge on NAFTA.
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Framing Effects on Public Opinion about Nanotechnology
TL;DR: This paper examined whether Americans' emotions and opinions about nanotechnology are influenced by how the issue is framed and found consistent framing effects even though the magnitudes of respondents' opinion changes are not especially large.
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Echoes of Vietnam? Casualty Framing and Public Perceptions of Success and Failure in Iraq
TL;DR: In the early stages of the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, military leaders resisted the release of body count and "casualty ratio" data as discussed by the authors, and the U.S. military (and...