2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A social psychological study of communication gap between the public and science communicators

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24700877
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College
Principal Investigator	TAKEDA Mia 青山学院女子短期大学, 現代教養学科, 准教授 (90509209)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	科学技術コミュニケーション / 視点取り
Research Abstract	I examined how science communicators take the public's perspective in science communication. Findings of this research are following: When the science communicators communicate with the visitors of various age groups in a science museum, they could take the visitors' perspective to some extent. Although a special feature of Science cafe is that people can speak to an expert about a particular topic in casual settings, the public may hesitate to take part in a Science Cafe because they don't have any person they can take part in together, and because they have to communicate with unfamiliar participants.

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