Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences

By Michael F. Dahlstrom. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

992 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Klaus Oberauer
2. Stephan Lewandowsky

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Klaus Oberauer
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. S. van der Linden
4. Gordon Pennycook
5. David G. Rand

Citations in the corpus

• A Model of Competing Narratives (2018, neutral): “V (G, d;α) = d · 1 + 6α− 4α 2 2(1 + 2α)(3− 2α) + (1− d) · 3 + 6α− 4α(2) 2(1 + 2α)(3− 2α) (8)”
• The Science of Using Science: Researching the Use of Research Evidence in Decision-Making (2016, background): “Reviewing the above communication interventions, it appears that there might be room for science communication to target decision-makers more explicitly as potential evidence users, and for the profession to be closer aligned with efforts to build awareness for the concept of EIDM (Hart & Niesbet 20”
• Motivated Rejection of Science (2016, background): “Other research has identified the use of narratives—that is, personal anecdotes or “storytelling”—as a powerful means to communicate science (e.g., Dahlstrom, 2014).”