Painful dilemmas: a study of the way the public’s assessment of animal research balances costs to animals against human benefits
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Painful dilemmas : a study of the way the public’s assessment of animal research balances costs to animals against human benefits. / Lund, Thomas Bøker; Mørkbak, Morten Raun; Lassen, Jesper; Sandøe, Peter.
In: Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2014, p. 428-444.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - Painful dilemmas
T2 - a study of the way the public’s assessment of animal research balances costs to animals against human benefits
AU - Lund, Thomas Bøker
AU - Mørkbak, Morten Raun
AU - Lassen, Jesper
AU - Sandøe, Peter
N1 - Published online 3 August 2012
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal research rarely focus on this part of attitude formation. This paper traces the prevalence of different attitudes to animal research in the public when people are asked to take benefit and cost considerations into account concurrently. Results from the examination of two representative samples of the Danish public identify three reproducible attitude stances. Approximately 30–35% of people questioned approved of animal research quite strongly, and 15–20% opposed animal research. The remaining 50% were reserved in their views. Further studies will ideally use the measure developed here to make possible relatively fine-grained comparisons and understandings of differences between populations and changes in attitudes over time.
AB - The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal research rarely focus on this part of attitude formation. This paper traces the prevalence of different attitudes to animal research in the public when people are asked to take benefit and cost considerations into account concurrently. Results from the examination of two representative samples of the Danish public identify three reproducible attitude stances. Approximately 30–35% of people questioned approved of animal research quite strongly, and 15–20% opposed animal research. The remaining 50% were reserved in their views. Further studies will ideally use the measure developed here to make possible relatively fine-grained comparisons and understandings of differences between populations and changes in attitudes over time.
U2 - 10.1177/0963662512451402
DO - 10.1177/0963662512451402
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 428
EP - 444
JO - Public Understanding of Science
JF - Public Understanding of Science
SN - 0963-6625
IS - 4
ER -
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