The cultural side of science communication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue , 2014, Pages 13621-13626

  Medin, Douglas L ^a   Bang, Megan ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Lay epistemologies

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BOOK; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LAY EPISTEMOLOGIES; NATURAL SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCIENCE;

CULTURE; LAY EPISTEMOLOGIES;

ATTITUDE; BOOKS; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; KNOWLEDGE; NATURE; SCIENCE;

EID: 84907200833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317510111     Document Type: Article

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