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Educational Psychologist Volume 49, 2014 - Issue 2: Understanding the Public Understanding of Science: Psychological Approaches
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The Public's Bounded Understanding of Science

Rainer BrommeDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Muenster, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Susan R. GoldmanDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Pages 59-69 | Published online: 05 Jun 2014

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