Trust in Science and Medicine? P7
Fall 2025
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Surveys of shifting U.S. attitudes reveal concerning trends — and some surprises
You also found that people are not very good at estimating how much trust those in a different political party have in science and medicine. For Democrats, in particular, there was a huge gap in perception — they tended to think that Republicans have much less trust in science than Republicans actually reported. What did you take away from that finding?
It really highlights for me how people’s beliefs about other people with different political beliefs have become very hardened. We tend to exaggerate those differences. We have these very fixed ideas about how different other people are. And when you actually do the study, you find out their ideas aren’t that different.
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