Public Opinion | UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education

Perceptions and Attitudes: Analyzing opinion leaders in relation to genetically modified foods.

by piecenter | Sep 11, 2023

Controversial issues in agriculture arise, and it falls on opinion leaders to disseminate information to their networks and the public. Agriculturalists are often blamed for not taken consumers’ concerns into consideration. This study sought to add to previous...

Are American’s attitudes toward GM science really negative? An academic examination of willingness to expose attitudes.

by piecenter | Sep 11, 2023

The purpose of this study was to reexamine attitudes toward GM (genetic modification) science and explore whether tenets of the historic spiral of silence theory still exist to explain attitudes and willingness to expose attitudes. A national survey of 1,050 U.S....

Using the Six Americas framework to communicate and educate about global warming.

by piecenter | Sep 11, 2023

Agricultural communicators and extension educators need to make scientific information about global warming, a critical component of climate change, more salient to the general public to increase knowledge and to encourage people to take action to mitigate its effect;...