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Professor and researcher at Portland State University who studies science communication, particularly issues that impact American Indians. She is enrolled with the Osage tribe.
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
What’s Memorable
Writing about how we choose brings to mind other research about decision-making. Not only do we take the choice that’s framed positively: we avoid risks except when it comes to our own sense of vulnerability.
Posted in authenticity, framing, health, individualism, risk, science, science communication
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Good News, Bad News
The science writer for the Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke, wrote a story yesterday about framing and health, the focus of my research and writing.
Posted in authenticity, framing, health, individualism, journalism, medicine, news bias, risk, science, science communication, writing
Tagged native science, rhetoric, science
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What Hat Would You Be?
If you were a hat, what hat would you be?
Posted in authenticity, framing, Indian, Native Science, repatriation, science, science communication
Tagged Kennewick Man, literacy, native science, rhetoric, science
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Self-fulfilling Prophecies
We admonish students to take great care when they’re doing research to avoid self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Almost Random
A colleague told me yesterday that students know little about scientific methods when they enroll in her sophomore class. It’s not that they’re dumb: they lack a certain literacy about science. And they have little idea of what methods mean.
Just Throw the Ball
Writer Adam Gopnik wrote a lovely thought about how a message is like a baseball: “The trouble with mental catch is that the ball you throw changes in mid-air into another.”
Posted in authenticity, framing, medicine, risk, science
Tagged advertising, stereotypes, writing
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells are important: primal, even. Anyone’s who has smelled an infant’s scalp knows this. My daughters smell like roses and ice cream.
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Busting Myths
I’m ready to make good on a promise. It all started in graduate school. My myths were busted my first term at Cornell when my professors destroyed our stereotypes of mass media influences.
