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      Fixing the communications failure

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          Culture and Cognition

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            Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology.

            How is public opinion towards nanotechnology likely to evolve? The 'familiarity hypothesis' holds that support for nanotechnology will likely grow as awareness of it expands. The basis of this conjecture is opinion polling, which finds that few members of the public claim to know much about nanotechnology, but that those who say they do are substantially more likely to believe its benefits outweigh its risks. Some researchers, however, have avoided endorsing the familiarity hypothesis, stressing that cognitive heuristics and biases could create anxiety as the public learns more about this novel science. We conducted an experimental study aimed at determining how members of the public would react to balanced information about nanotechnology risks and benefits. Finding no support for the familiarity hypothesis, the study instead yielded strong evidence that public attitudes are likely to be shaped by psychological dynamics associated with cultural cognition.
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              When Beliefs Yield to Evidence: Reducing Biased Evaluation by Affirming the Self

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                Nature
                Nature
                Springer Science and Business Media LLC
                0028-0836
                1476-4687
                January 2010
                January 20 2010
                January 2010
                : 463
                : 7279
                : 296-297
                Article
                10.1038/463296a
                20090734
                f2b9ff54-9a96-4735-8fb4-e340a8fd8c21
                © 2010

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