Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Science Denial cover art

Science Denial

By: Gale Sinatra, Barbara Hofer
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

When Can You Trust the Experts? cover art
The Trouble with Trauma cover art
Critical Thinking: Logical Thoughts for People with Healthy Brains cover art
The World Becomes What We Teach cover art
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed cover art
Critical Thinking cover art
The Republican Brain cover art
Lessons from Critical Thinkers cover art
Critical Thinking cover art
Belonging cover art
A Macat Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis cover art
Learning in Adulthood cover art
Beginners Guide to Critical Thinking and Problem Solving cover art
The Misinformation Age cover art
Why Trust Science? cover art
Qualitative Research cover art

Summary

How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and wellbeing, as well as their communities, nations, and planet. Understanding key psychological explanations for science denial and doubt can help provide a means for improving scientific literacy and understanding - critically important at a time when denial has become deadly. 

In Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It, the authors identify the problem and why it matters and offer tools for addressing it. This book explains both the importance of science education and its limitations, shows how science communicators may inadvertently contribute to the problem, and explains how the internet and social media foster misinformation and disinformation. The authors focus on key psychological constructs such as reasoning biases, social identity, epistemic cognition, and emotions and attitudes that limit or facilitate public understanding of science, and describe solutions for individuals, educators, science communicators, and policy makers. If you have ever wondered why science denial exists, want to know how to understand your own biases and those of others, and would like to address the problem, this book will provide the insights you are seeking.

©2021 Oxford University Press (P)2021 Recorded Books

What listeners say about Science Denial

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.