This experiment ( N = 170) used stimuli articles that reflected different presentation sources (3: political/public relations/researcher) and types of science research (2: “hard”/“soft”) to examine effects on people's attitudes toward the featured research project's (a) utility and (b) worthiness of federal grant funding, while controlling for individual differences in political attitudes and interest in science. Though the contemporary media environment is filled with many different sources disseminating communications about science-including journalists, politicians and opinion leaders, and researchers-few studies have examined how messages about science communicated by different sources directly influence audience opinion about scientific research itself. Department of Communication, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.Stephanie Tom Tong *, Fred Vultee, Sean Kolhoff, Allison B.
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