Project members are carrying out a series of experiments to determine how the public regards the risks and benefits of nanotechnology, how their views are likely to evolve, and how facts about this novel science should be communicated to promote informed deliberation.
Cultural worldviews more powerfully explain political attitudes generally than do various other individual characteristics, including gender, race, income, education, and political affiliations and ideology.
Who fears environmental risks, such as global warming, nuclear power accidents, and pollution generally? Data from the National Risk & Culture Survey answer this question.
The gun control debate features competing risk perceptions: that too little control will increase gun accidents and homicides and that too much control will render law-abiding citizens unable to defend themselves from predation. Data from the National Risk & Culture Survey tell us which of these “gun risk perceptions” individuals are likely to take seriously, and why.
Cultural worldviews strongly predict the perception that abortion is (or is not) dangerous to the health of women and that obtaining surgery from an HIV-positive doctor poses a high (or low) risk of HIV infection.
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