Trust in science seems compatible with believing almost anything, so long as it is expressed in plausibly scientific terms.
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Distrust in health care during infectious disease outbreaks can have devastating consequences. Here’s what we can do about it.
When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.
Following the app’s sale, the company’s updated privacy policy and terms of service set off alarm bells. The reaction shows Big Tech has lost the public’s trust.
New research shows climate scientists are less trusted than other types of scientists. But there are big differences between countries and specific groups of people.
Many Australians find political news off-putting, but it’s vital for our democracy that media outlets work towards making their reporting more accessible and relatable.
Dogs appeared several times during testimonies, typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in the form of a dog.
Providing a correction can affect how the audience feels about the journalists trying to set the record straight.
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.
Whistleblowers should be entitled to financial support. But that has potential costs as well as benefits.
Public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many people experienced social isolation. But the pandemic didn’t invent loneliness, and its impacts on our health are growing.
To communicate scientific findings that are relevant to the public, science communicators need to understand how to overcome attitudes that are anti-science.
Google search algorithms often pull up misleading descriptors for controversial people, and results can differ across languages. Understanding how these algorithms function can address misinformation.
Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
The Republican Party has a decadeslong relationship with using distrust to incite its base and draw in more supporters – the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks just offer the latest example of this tactic.
The failure of the 2021 post-election deal is a missed opportunity for the African National Congress and Inkatha to work together.
With distrust for school officials prevalent during the pandemic, an educational historian calls attention to the need for officials to have more positive relations with educators and parents.
There has been growing discontent with many local authorities and calls by concerned citizens for the municipalities to be dissolved.
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
Top contributors
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Director of the Center for Trust Studies, Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona
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Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
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Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology, Dean of Faculty Affairs, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Law, University of Warwick
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John M. Nickerson Professor of Political Science, University of Maine
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Professor of Political Science, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
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Graduate Student, Arizona State University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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McClelland Professor of Marketing, University of Arizona