Gender Differences in Responses to News about Science and Technology

Hornig, Susanna

doi:10.1177/016224399201700406

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Age was also positively related to concern about BPA (p < .01). Compared with men, women expressed greater concern about BPA and were more likely to report individual behaviors (p < .05 for each)-a pattern that fits with previous findings of differences across gender in reservations and risks perceptions regarding science and technology (Hornig, 1992;Liu & Priest, 2005;. Neither self-identification as African American nor self-identification as Hispanic was significantly related to any of the dependent variables.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 81%

Multiple Exposures: Scientific Controversy, the Media, and Public Responses to Bisphenol A

Brewer

Ley

2011

Science Communication

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The controversy surrounding the potential health effects of bisphenol A (BPA) has recently spread from the scientific arena to mass mediated public debate. This study presents a theoretical account of low-information rationality to explain why media use (including newspaper use and online health information use) and confidence in key actors (including business, the Food and Drug Administration, and scientists) may predict public responses to BPA. It then analyzes survey data to examine how these factors are related to familiarity with BPA, concern about it, support for a ban on it, and behaviors to reduce exposure to it.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 81%

Multiple Exposures: Scientific Controversy, the Media, and Public Responses to Bisphenol A

Brewer

Ley

2011

Science Communication

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“…Many studies have documented differences between men's and women's practices and achievement in science and have provided explanations ranging from social psychological to structural arguments: the role of gender ideology in the construction of science (Fox Keller, 1995), cultural differences (Gilbert, Crettaz von Roten & Alvarez, 2006;Hornig, 1992), the lack of women role models and stereotyped images of women scientists (Steinke, 1997(Steinke, , 2005, discrimination in promotion and allocation procedures (Frank Fox, 1995;Wenneras & Wold, 1997), problems with reconciling the reality of one's biological clock, and the ideal temporality of one's career (Frank Fox, 1995). Poliakoff and Webb (2007) have identified three factors that predict scientists' intentions toward public outreach and engagement activities: attitudes toward such activities, perceived behavioral control, and descriptive norm.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in Scientists’ Public Outreach and Engagement Activities

Roten

2010

Science Communication

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Science communication research has tended to focus on the perceptions of the public and has often neglected the views of scientists. This article analyzes public outreach and engagement attitudes and activities of women scientists; it is based on a case study conducted in Switzerland. The survey results found that attitudes toward public outreach and engagement activities are the same among men and women scientists, but that activities are done significantly more often by men scientists than by women scientists. A multivariate analysis showed that there is a gender difference in the level of activities even after the effects of position, age, and faculty are removed. Because public outreach and engagement activities may be due to either scientists’ initiatives or media initiatives, the author analyzed media contacts. The media contact women scientists less often than men scientists—and this independently of position, age, and faculty. When comparing men’s and women’s improvements for public outreach and engagement, this study found significant differences that can be used to tailor incentives for each group of scientists.

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“…As it happens, women display less affinity with natural science and technology and stronger environmental concern, both of which suggest weaker rationalism. Moreover, those low levels of rationalism among women are not limited to the public at large (Blocker andEckberg 1989, 1997;Hornig 1992), but also apply to life scientists (Barke, Jenkins-Smith, and Slovic 1997) and political elites (Cohen 1997). So, the stronger affinity with New Age among women as compared with men might be attributable to weaker rationalism.…”

Section: Education and Gender As Controlsmentioning

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Why Do Churches Become Empty, While New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in the Netherlands

Houtman

Mascini

2002

Scientific Study of Religion

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Research from the Netherlands has pointed out that the increased popularity of New Age since the 1960s by no means compensates for the dramatic decline of the Christian churches. From a theoretical point of view, however, it is more important to study why those remarkably divergent developments have occurred in the first place. This article does this by analyzing survey data collected among the Dutch population at large in 1998, focusing on a comparison of the young and the elderly. It is concluded, first, that there are no indications that the decline of the Christian tradition has been caused by a process of rationalization. Second, the decline of the Christian tradition and the growth of nonreligiosity as well as New Age are caused by increased levels of moral individualism (individualization). Implications for the sociological analysis of cultural and religious change are discussed.If we have to make one element of modernization central to understanding the nature of modern religion, it would be that which explains the rise of the sect, the tolerance at the heart of the denomination, and the amorphous nature of the cult: individualism. (Bruce 1995:428)

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Gender Differences in Responses to News about Science and Technology

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Multiple Exposures: Scientific Controversy, the Media, and Public Responses to Bisphenol A

Multiple Exposures: Scientific Controversy, the Media, and Public Responses to Bisphenol A

Gender Differences in Scientists’ Public Outreach and Engagement Activities

Why Do Churches Become Empty, While New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in the Netherlands

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