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      Public perception of scientists: Experimental evidence on the role of sociodemographic, partisan, and professional characteristics

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          Previous research shows that public trust in scientists is often bound up with the messages that they convey and the context in which they communicate. However, in the current study, we examine how the public perceives scientists based on the characteristics of scientists themselves, irrespective of their scientific message and its context. Using a quota sample of U.S. adults, we investigate how scientists’ sociodemographic; partisan; and professional characteristics affect preferences and trust towards them as a scientific adviser to local government. We find that scientists’ party identification and professional characteristics appear to be prominent to understand public preferences towards them.

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                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
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                PLoS One
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                PLOS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                7 July 2023
                2023
                : 18
                : 7
                : e0287572
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Social Research Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
                [2 ] Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                [3 ] Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
                Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, SPAIN
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-566X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-7523
                Article
                PONE-D-22-23245
                10.1371/journal.pone.0287572
                10328236
                f249a9cb-6ead-4b3f-8b1e-e661aa98ffc2
                © 2023 Sonmez et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 19 August 2022
                : 8 June 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 6, Tables: 1, Pages: 20
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010046, University of Essex;
                Award ID: Personal Research Account
                Award Recipient :
                N.A received funding from the University of Essex as part of his personal research account. https://www.essex.ac.uk/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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