Factors influencing risk perceptions of science issues: Comparing college students in the U.S. and South Korea

초록

This study examines the role of the media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing in shaping participants’ risk perception of nuclear and genetically modified organisms (GMO) technology in the United States and South Korea. The findings indicate that attentions to science television news and elaborative processing are positively related to risk perception of science issues. The effect of newspaper readership on risk perception about scientific issues was moderated by elaborative processing. see Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk Division Abstracts http://www.aejmc.org/home/2014/06/comsher-2014-abstracts/