Australian Study on Public Knowledge of Human Genetics and Health

The introduction of the programs on Holocaust education in Poland and a broader debate on the transgressions of Poles against the Jews have not led to desired improvement in public knowledge on these historical events. A comparison of survey results from the last two decades (Bilewicz, Winiewski, Radzik, 2012) illustrates mounting ignorance: the number of Poles who acknowledge that the highest number of victims of the Nazi occupation period was Jewish systematically decreases, while the number of those who think that the highest number of victims of the wartime period was ethnically Polish, increases. Insights from the social psychological research allow to explain the psychological foundations of this resistance to acknowledge the facts about the Holocaust, and indicate the need for positive group identity as a crucial factor preventing people from recognizing such a threatening historical information. In this paper we will provide knowledge about the ways to overcome this resistance-through-denial. Implementation of such measures could allow people to accept responsibility for the misdeeds committed by their ancestors.

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Human Genetics

10.1007/978-3-662-02489-8 ◽

1986 ◽

Cited By ~ 337

Author(s):

Friedrich Vogel ◽

Arno G. Motulsky

Keyword(s):

Human Genetics

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Getting the Measure of Twins

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

William Viney

Keyword(s):

Environmental Effects ◽

Natural Experiment ◽

Human Genetics ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Identical Twin ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Modern Biology ◽

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould, the biologist and author, once joked that were he an identical twin raised separately from his brother they could ‘hire ourselves out to a host of social scientists and practically name our fee’. In order to monetise Gould’s fantasy, one would want a form of twinship that could operate according to evidential, experimental, somatic and circumstantial ideals. And Gould admits that he and his brother would need to be viewed as ‘the only really adequate natural experiment for separating genetic from environmental effects in humans’. This chapter seeks to interrogate the evidential and experimental circumstances that may underpin the comic quips that guide modern biology. In human genetics, twins are used as experimental bodies that are made to matter in particular ways and for particular people; they become newly ‘animate’ for being enrolled into scientific research. Raised in cultures assumed to be alike or dissimilar, isolated by researchers for being valuable in the measured disentanglement of assembled molecular agents (which are sometimes distinguished from an assemblage referred to as an ‘environment’), twins achieve a status of experimental significance not just for what they do but also for what they are taken to be.

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Australian Public Knowledge of Islam

STUDIA ISLAMIKA ◽

10.15408/sdi.v12i1.644 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kevin M. Dunn Dunn

Keyword(s):

Public Knowledge

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Public knowledge and practice on Brucellosis; its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries ◽

10.24911/ijmdc.51-1549065022 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 532-535

Author(s):

Feras Albalawi ◽

Abdulaziz AlEissa ◽

Fahad Almazyad ◽

Talal AlMutairi ◽

Fawaz Alharbi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Public Knowledge ◽

Knowledge And Practice

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Public knowledge and awareness about genetic influence and lifestyle modification on chronic diseases in Hail city, Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries ◽

10.24911/ijmdc.51-1605522677 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 120-127

Author(s):

Naveed Haq ◽

Rahaf Aldhaban ◽

Haifa Albrahim

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Chronic Diseases ◽

Lifestyle Modification ◽

Genetic Influence ◽

Public Knowledge

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Public knowledge, perception and communication behavior surrounding COVID-19 in Malaysia

10.31124/advance.12102816 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah ◽

Chang Da Wan

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Employment Status ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Movement Control ◽

Education Level ◽

Public Knowledge ◽

Communication Behavior ◽

Positive Communication ◽

The Face ◽

Control Order

The COVID-19 pandemic is the first to occur in an age of hyperconnectivity. This paper presents results from an online anonymous survey conducted in Malay, English, and Chinese, during the first week of the Movement Control Order in Malaysia (n=1075), which aimed to examine public knowledge, perception and communication behavior in the Malaysian society in the face of a sudden outbreak and social distancing measures. Although the level of public knowledge, risk perception and positive communication behavior surrounding COVID-19 was high, a majority of respondents reported receiving a lot of questionable information. Multinomial logistic regression further identified that responses to different items varied significantly across respondent survey language, gender, age, education level and employment status.

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