It will never be as it was before. Corona pandemia and its consequences: Chances of educational psychology – a subjective statementAbstract. The corona pandemia leads to consequences that are significant for individuals, ...
Selection, Integration, and Evaluation: How We Use the Internet to Find Information About ScienceAbstract. On the Internet, laypeople can access a great variety of scientific information. To benefit from the wealth of information, laypeople need to ...
Science Communication in Science Museums From a Psychological PerspectiveAbstract. This article looks at the important role of museums and exhibitions for communicating scientific findings and evidence to large groups of citizens. Science communication ...
How Can Teachers and Students Learn to Understand and Use Fragile Evidence?Abstract. Being able to critically evaluate scientific evidence and using it for argumentation are central components of scientific literacy. Both students and teachers should ...
Motivated Science ReceptionAbstract. We define motivated science reception as a phenomenon by which recipients’ motivational states influence how scientific evidence is processed, which, in turn, allows recipients to draw conclusions that are congruent ...
The Influence of Pictures on the Comprehension of and Trust in Scientific InformationAbstract. In science communication, the use of pictures is omnipresent. In many cases it involves (a) realistic pictures (mostly photographs) to illustrate matters or (b)...
Modes of Understanding and the Magic of the IncomprehensibleAbstract. We propose a hypothetical classification of different types of public understanding of science and discuss how these types relate to risk perception. Empirically, an increasing ...
Comprehension of Controversial Scientific Themes: Problems, Underlying Cognititves Processes and Psychological InterventionsAbstract. People interested in publically debated scientific issues are often confronted with multiple texts that provide contrary ...
Communication from Scientifically Active Psychologists in the German-Speaking Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Current SituationAbstract: The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) expressly promotes ...
The Public Relations Activities of the DGPs. Past Developments, Present State, and Future PlansAbstract: This article reconstructs the developments in the public relations activities of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs, ...
For scientific laypersons, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the concept of scientific evidence. Prior research shows that the media tend to underrepresent the tentativeness and uncertainty of research findings. Yet presently it remains ...
In contrast to research on the communication of “hard” sciences (e.g., nanotechnology), research on public assessments of social science’s role in media discourse is rare. Extending previous work on how the general audience perceives and assesses the ...
When people read Web-based science-related journalistic articles, they usually read more than one text. As a consequence, they face the task of constructing a coherent mental model of the issue on the basis of conflicting information. We assume that ...
Scientific information about the global climate and its development is both complex and uncertain. For laypersons, mass media and the Internet constitute the main sources of information about climate change. However, so far, little is known about the ...
Abstract. This study examined whether watching science-related entertainment narratives can influence science learning, interest in science, and information-seeking intentions. Based on the capacity model (Fisch, 2000), a more precise ...