… If politics doesn’t always explain why some people embrace scientific research and why others are skeptical, then what does?
In an article recently published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, we find that the answer lies not just in our views on politics or whether we are conservative or liberal. Instead, our views about innovations in science and technology may be driven by something more fundamental and more contextual — whether we are optimists or pessimists. CONT.
Maya Sen & Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard), Monkey Cage