2014 Peer-Reviewed Articles

Binder, A. R., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2014). The role of news media in the social amplification of risk. In The SAGE handbook of risk communication (pp. 69-86). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781483387918.n10

Cacciatore, M. A., Yeo, S. K., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A., Choi, D.-H., Becker, A. B., Brossard, D., & Corley, E. A. (2014). Misperceptions in polarized politics: The role of knowledge, religiosity, and media. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(3), 654-661. doi: 10.1017/S1049096514000791

Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Corley, E. A. (2014). Another (methodological) look at knowledge gaps and the Internet’s potential for closing them. Public Understanding of Science, 23(4), 377-395. doi: 10.1177/0963662512447606

Jones, A. R., Anderson, A. A., Yeo, S. K., Greenberg, A. E., Brossard, D., & Moore, J. W. (2014). Using a deliberative exercise to foster public engagement in nanotechnology. Journal of Chemical Education, 91(2), 179-187. doi: 10.1021/ed400517q

Kim, J., Yeo, S. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2014). Disentangling the influence of value predispositions and risk/benefit perceptions on support for nanotechnology among the American public. Risk Analysis, 34(5), 965-980. doi: 10.1111/risa.12141

Leiserowitz, A., Feinberg, G., Rosenthal, S., Smith, N., Anderson, A., Roser-Renouf, C. & Maibach, E. (2014). What’s In A Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change. Yale University and George  Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

Li, N., Anderson, A. A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2014). Channeling science information seekers’ attention? A content analysis of top-ranked vs. lower-ranked sites in Google. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication,19(3), 562-575. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12043

Liang, X., Su, L. Y.-F., Yeo, S. K., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M. A., Nealey, P., & Corley, E. A. (2014). Building buzz: (Scientists) communicating science in new media environments. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 91(4), 772-791. doi: 10.1177/1077699014550092014

Liang, X., Tsai, J., Mattis, K., Konieczna, M., & Dunwoody, S. (2014). Exploring attribution of responsibility in a cross-national study of TV news coverage of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58(2), 253-271. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2014.906436

Peters, H. P., Dunwoody, S., Allgaier, J., Lo, Y.-Y., & Brossard, D. (2014). Public communication of science 2.0: Is the communication of science via the “new media” online a genuine transformation or old wine in new bottles? EMBO reports, 5(7), 749-753. doi: 10.15252/embr.201438979

Scheufele, D. A. (2014). Science communication as political communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(Supplement 4), 13585-13592. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317516111

Su, L. Y.-F., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2014). Inequalities in scientific understanding: Differentiating between factual and perceived knowledge gaps. Science Communication, 36(3), 352-378. doi: 10.1177/1075547014529093

Yeo, S. K., Cacciatore, M. A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Runge, K., Su, L. Y., Kim, J., Xenos, M. A., & Corley, E. A. (2014). Partisan amplification of risk: American perceptions of nuclear energy risk in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Energy Policy, 67, 727-736. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.061

Yeo, S. K., Xenos, M. A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2014). Disconnected discourses: How popular discourse about nanotechnology is missing the point. Materials Today, 17(2), 48-49. doi: 10.1016/j.mattod.2014.01.002.