Elizabeth A Corley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Corley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Corley |
| SIGNATURE | CORLEY E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8660-9938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urban Neighborhoods with Greater Access but Less Use of Nearby Parks: Case of Los Angeles, California
We examine the relationship between urban residents’ access and use of nearby green spaces, recognizing that this link can vary across neighborhoods. Our study integrates park data from the Trust for Public Land and population mobility data from SafeGraph for the Los Angeles urban area. Using geographically weighted regression (GWR) and multiscale GWR (MGWR), we identify neighborhoods with high park accessibility but significantly lower usage. A …
Organizational Memories of Extreme Events: Evidence from U.S. Public Transit Agencies
The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events require organizations to effectively manage the threats these phenomena pose. To respond to these challenges, public agencies often turn to their organizational memories for guidance. Organizational memories support information processing capacity, facilitate sensemaking, and legitimize and speed up decision-making processes. While memories influence different aspects of organization…
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona
Green space access and visitation disparities in the phoenix metropolitan area
Environmental Justice and Phoenix, Arizona Neighborhood Parks
The literature on urban parks and green spaces has demonstrated that these spaces in a city can have a significant and positive impact on human health, including physical, mental, and psychological health. In fact, living near parks has been shown to reduce mortality rates in residents and significantly reduce depression and stress levels. Yet, the environmental justice literature has shown that the quality of parks (measured by a variety of vari…
The effect of comment moderation on perceived bias in science news
Uncivil comments following online news articles about issues of science and technology have been shown to lead to biased interpretations of the news content itself. Using an experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey, we provide evidence that cues about comment moderation ‒ even without any change in the comments themselves ‒ have the potential to alleviate this so-called nasty effect. Participants exposed to uncivil comments that …
Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: An Approach to Creating and Analyzing Robust Survey Scales
Larson, K., E. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. York, S. Meerow, P. Coseo, D. L. Childers, and D. Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating and analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology and Society 24(2):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207
Is Facebook Making Us Dumber? Exploring Social Media Use as a Predictor of Political Knowledge
With social networking site (SNS) use now ubiquitous in American culture, researchers have started paying attention to its effects in a variety of domains. This study explores the relationships between measures of Facebook use and political knowledge levels using a pair of representative samples of U.S. adults. We find that although the mere use of Facebook was unrelated to political knowledge scores, how Facebook users report engaging with the S…
Opposing ends of the spectrum: Exploring trust in scientific and religious authorities
Given the ethical questions that surround emerging science, this study is interested in studying public trust in scientific and religious authorities for information about the risks and benefits of science. Using data from a nationally representative survey of American adults, we employ regression analysis to better understand the relationships between several variables—including values, knowledge, and media attention—and trust in religious organ…
Are attitudes toward labeling nano products linked to attitudes toward GMO? Exploring a potential ‘spillover’ effect for attitudes toward controversial technologies
We present an analysis of how citizens form attitudes about labeling nanotechnology, building on previous work on the socio-cultural dynamics under publics’ perceptions of risks and governance of emerging technologies. We examine whether individuals’ views about labeling nanotechnology products are correlated with their attitudes about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which we argue offers preliminary support for a ‘spillover’ effect, such …
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
Laboratory Safety and Nanotechnology Workers: An Analysis of Current Guidelines in the USA
An exploration of state legislator communication technology use and importance
This article explores the importance and communication frequency associated with legislator use of communication technologies (CTs). Demographic variations are examined. Our results suggest that significant complexity surrounds legislator utilization of CTs for their interactions with peers and constituents. For example, we conclude that: (a) legislators find mature CTs more important than Internet-enabled CTs; (b) legislator age and years in off…
Another (methodological) look at knowledge gaps and the Internet’s potential for closing them
Members of the World Economic Forum recently identified the economic, health and knowledge disparities between the “haves” and “have-nots” in the world as one of the central risks in the global risk landscape. However, research on the role of communication in reducing knowledge disparities for emerging technologies is rare. More importantly, little research has tracked knowledge gaps about emerging technologies in representative populations over …
Misperceptions in Polarized Politics: The Role of Knowledge, Religiosity, and Media
Many Americans hold distorted views of elected officials and, as our study shows, the blame is due partly to our ideological biases and partly to mass media. Analyzing a nationally representative online survey, we corroborate recent research that found that one in five Americans still believe president Barack Obama is a Muslim and that almost seven in ten mistakenly think Sarah Palin, and not Saturday Night Live ’s Tina Fey, was the first to say …
Factors influencing public risk–benefit considerations of nanotechnology: Assessing the effects of mass media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing
This study examines the influence of mass media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing on public perception of benefits and risks of nanotechnology, based on a large-scale nationally representative telephone survey of U.S. adult citizens. Results indicate that cognitive processes in the form of news elaboration had a significant positive main effect on benefits outweigh risks perception. The influences of attention to science in…
The Current Status and Future Direction of Nanotechnology Regulations: A View from Nano-scientists
This article presents an up-to-date view of leading U.S. nanoscientists' perceptions about the regulation of nanotechnology. Our analysis draws from the results of a 2011 mail survey with 444 of the most prolific nanoscientists in the United States to explore their perceptions about existing nanotech policies, the development of new nanotech policies, and mandatory policies about the implementation of safe lab practices for federally funded nanor…
Measuring risk/benefit perceptions of emerging technologies and their potential impact on communication of public opinion toward science
This study presents a systematic comparison of two alternative measures of citizens’ perceptions of risks and benefits of emerging technologies. By focusing on two specific issues (nanotechnology and biofuels), we derive several insights for the measurement of public views of science. Most importantly, our analyses reveal that relying on global, single-item measures may lead to invalid inferences regarding external influences on public perception…
From enabling technology to applications: The evolution of risk perceptions about nanotechnology
Public opinion research on nanotechnology has primarily focused on judgments of abstract risks and benefits, rather than attitudes toward specific applications. This approach will be less useful as nanotechnology morphs from a scientific breakthrough into an enabling technology whose impacts on people’s lives come in the form of concrete applications in specific areas. This study examines the mental connections or associations US citizens have wi…
The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies
Journal Article The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies Get access Ashley A. Anderson, Ashley A. Anderson 1Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, 3University of Wisconsin–Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Templated Synthesis and Assembl…
Value Predispositions, Mass Media, and Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology: The Interplay of Public and Experts
This study examines the factors influencing public and experts’ attitudes toward nanotechnology. Compared with the experts, the public judged nanotechnology as having greater risks and lesser benefits, and indicated less support for federal funding of nanotechnology. Experts used trust in scientists while public used religious beliefs as heuristic cues to make risk judgments. Although deference to scientific authority, science media use, and trus…
Scholarly Collaboration and Productivity Patterns in Public Administration: Analysing Recent Trends
Previous studies have confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of the field of public administration (Mosher 1956; Ventriss 1991; Forrester 1996; Rodgers and Rodgers 2000; Schroeder et al. 2004) and encouraged the exploration of one important indicator of interdisciplinarity: research collaboration. One way that collaboration patterns are explored is through the study of co-authorship among faculty members (Smart and Bayer 1986; Forrester 1996; Kat…
Religious beliefs and public attitudes toward nanotechnology in Europe and the United States
Faculty job satisfaction across gender and discipline
It is projected that by 2014 colleges, universities, and professional schools will witness an employment growth of 34.3% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). Thus, issues of faculty satisfaction, retention, and persistence will become increasingly important for university administrators and education policy makers. The need to study faculty satisfaction at universities also stems from the fact that the intellectual and social structures of higher …
Water Managers' Perceptions of the Science–Policy Interface in Phoenix, Arizona: Implications for an Emerging Boundary Organization
A potential water supply crisis has sparked concern among policymakers, water managers, and academic scientists in Phoenix, AZ. The availability of water resources is linked to population growth, increasing demand, static supply, land use change, and uncertainty. This article examines the perceptions of water managers working at the science–policy interface in Phoenix and discusses the implications of their experiences for the development of an e…
Scholarly Collaboration and Productivity Patterns in Public Administration: Analysing Recent Trends
Previous studies have confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of the field of public administration (Mosher 1956; Ventriss 1991; Forrester 1996; Rodgers and Rodgers 2000; Schroeder et al. 2004) and encouraged the exploration of one important indicator of interdisciplinarity: research collaboration. One way that collaboration patterns are explored is through the study of co-authorship among faculty members (Smart and Bayer 1986; Forrester 1996; Kat…
Value Predispositions, Mass Media, and Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology: The Interplay of Public and Experts
This study examines the factors influencing public and experts’ attitudes toward nanotechnology. Compared with the experts, the public judged nanotechnology as having greater risks and lesser benefits, and indicated less support for federal funding of nanotechnology. Experts used trust in scientists while public used religious beliefs as heuristic cues to make risk judgments. Although deference to scientific authority, science media use, and trus…
The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies
Journal Article The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies Get access Ashley A. Anderson, Ashley A. Anderson 1Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, 3University of Wisconsin–Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Templated Synthesis and Assembl…
Water Managers' Perceptions of the Science–Policy Interface in Phoenix, Arizona: Implications for an Emerging Boundary Organization
A potential water supply crisis has sparked concern among policymakers, water managers, and academic scientists in Phoenix, AZ. The availability of water resources is linked to population growth, increasing demand, static supply, land use change, and uncertainty. This article examines the perceptions of water managers working at the science–policy interface in Phoenix and discusses the implications of their experiences for the development of an e…
Faculty job satisfaction across gender and discipline
It is projected that by 2014 colleges, universities, and professional schools will witness an employment growth of 34.3% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). Thus, issues of faculty satisfaction, retention, and persistence will become increasingly important for university administrators and education policy makers. The need to study faculty satisfaction at universities also stems from the fact that the intellectual and social structures of higher …
Environmental Ethics Beyond Principle? The Case for a Pragmatic Contextualism
Misperceptions in Polarized Politics: The Role of Knowledge, Religiosity, and Media
Many Americans hold distorted views of elected officials and, as our study shows, the blame is due partly to our ideological biases and partly to mass media. Analyzing a nationally representative online survey, we corroborate recent research that found that one in five Americans still believe president Barack Obama is a Muslim and that almost seven in ten mistakenly think Sarah Palin, and not Saturday Night Live ’s Tina Fey, was the first to say …
The Current Status and Future Direction of Nanotechnology Regulations: A View from Nano-scientists
This article presents an up-to-date view of leading U.S. nanoscientists' perceptions about the regulation of nanotechnology. Our analysis draws from the results of a 2011 mail survey with 444 of the most prolific nanoscientists in the United States to explore their perceptions about existing nanotech policies, the development of new nanotech policies, and mandatory policies about the implementation of safe lab practices for federally funded nanor…
How Do Career Strategies, Gender, and Work Environment Affect Faculty Productivity Levels in University-Based Science Centers?1
Recent studies have shown that in many science and engineering fields, almost 40% of faculty are affiliated with university-based research centers (Corley & Gaughan, 2005). As major science funding organizations continue to increase annual levels of funding for interdisciplinary science centers, it is likely that this number will increase significantly over the next decade. Moreover, some scholars have argued that the rise of university-based sci…
Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: An Approach to Creating and Analyzing Robust Survey Scales
Larson, K., E. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. York, S. Meerow, P. Coseo, D. L. Childers, and D. Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating and analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology and Society 24(2):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207
Conservation or Preservation? A Qualitative Study of the Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Management
Scientists’ collaboration strategies: Implications for scientific and technical human capital
Environmental Ethics Beyond Principle? The Case for a Pragmatic Contextualism
US national forest policies regarding logging: A case study of citizens and scientists in the Chattahoochee National Forest
This article explores how differences in scientist and citizen mental models regarding logging in a US national forest can lead the two groups to support divergent policies, although they agree about the goals that logging policies should achieve in the forest. A case-study methodology of logging in the Chattahoochee National Forest in the United States is used. The case study is informed by two methods: in-depth interviews and a written question…
How Do Career Strategies, Gender, and Work Environment Affect Faculty Productivity Levels in University-Based Science Centers?1
Recent studies have shown that in many science and engineering fields, almost 40% of faculty are affiliated with university-based research centers (Corley & Gaughan, 2005). As major science funding organizations continue to increase annual levels of funding for interdisciplinary science centers, it is likely that this number will increase significantly over the next decade. Moreover, some scholars have argued that the rise of university-based sci…
Conservation or Preservation? A Qualitative Study of the Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Management
Water Managers' Perceptions of the Science–Policy Interface in Phoenix, Arizona: Implications for an Emerging Boundary Organization
A potential water supply crisis has sparked concern among policymakers, water managers, and academic scientists in Phoenix, AZ. The availability of water resources is linked to population growth, increasing demand, static supply, land use change, and uncertainty. This article examines the perceptions of water managers working at the science–policy interface in Phoenix and discusses the implications of their experiences for the development of an e…
Religious beliefs and public attitudes toward nanotechnology in Europe and the United States
Faculty job satisfaction across gender and discipline
It is projected that by 2014 colleges, universities, and professional schools will witness an employment growth of 34.3% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). Thus, issues of faculty satisfaction, retention, and persistence will become increasingly important for university administrators and education policy makers. The need to study faculty satisfaction at universities also stems from the fact that the intellectual and social structures of higher …
Value Predispositions, Mass Media, and Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology: The Interplay of Public and Experts
This study examines the factors influencing public and experts’ attitudes toward nanotechnology. Compared with the experts, the public judged nanotechnology as having greater risks and lesser benefits, and indicated less support for federal funding of nanotechnology. Experts used trust in scientists while public used religious beliefs as heuristic cues to make risk judgments. Although deference to scientific authority, science media use, and trus…
Scholarly Collaboration and Productivity Patterns in Public Administration: Analysing Recent Trends
Previous studies have confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of the field of public administration (Mosher 1956; Ventriss 1991; Forrester 1996; Rodgers and Rodgers 2000; Schroeder et al. 2004) and encouraged the exploration of one important indicator of interdisciplinarity: research collaboration. One way that collaboration patterns are explored is through the study of co-authorship among faculty members (Smart and Bayer 1986; Forrester 1996; Kat…
From enabling technology to applications: The evolution of risk perceptions about nanotechnology
Public opinion research on nanotechnology has primarily focused on judgments of abstract risks and benefits, rather than attitudes toward specific applications. This approach will be less useful as nanotechnology morphs from a scientific breakthrough into an enabling technology whose impacts on people’s lives come in the form of concrete applications in specific areas. This study examines the mental connections or associations US citizens have wi…
The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies
Journal Article The Role of Media and Deference to Scientific Authority in Cultivating Trust in Sources of Information about Emerging Technologies Get access Ashley A. Anderson, Ashley A. Anderson 1Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, 3University of Wisconsin–Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Templated Synthesis and Assembl…
Measuring risk/benefit perceptions of emerging technologies and their potential impact on communication of public opinion toward science
This study presents a systematic comparison of two alternative measures of citizens’ perceptions of risks and benefits of emerging technologies. By focusing on two specific issues (nanotechnology and biofuels), we derive several insights for the measurement of public views of science. Most importantly, our analyses reveal that relying on global, single-item measures may lead to invalid inferences regarding external influences on public perception…
Factors influencing public risk–benefit considerations of nanotechnology: Assessing the effects of mass media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing
This study examines the influence of mass media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing on public perception of benefits and risks of nanotechnology, based on a large-scale nationally representative telephone survey of U.S. adult citizens. Results indicate that cognitive processes in the form of news elaboration had a significant positive main effect on benefits outweigh risks perception. The influences of attention to science in…
The Current Status and Future Direction of Nanotechnology Regulations: A View from Nano-scientists
This article presents an up-to-date view of leading U.S. nanoscientists' perceptions about the regulation of nanotechnology. Our analysis draws from the results of a 2011 mail survey with 444 of the most prolific nanoscientists in the United States to explore their perceptions about existing nanotech policies, the development of new nanotech policies, and mandatory policies about the implementation of safe lab practices for federally funded nanor…
Another (methodological) look at knowledge gaps and the Internet’s potential for closing them
Members of the World Economic Forum recently identified the economic, health and knowledge disparities between the “haves” and “have-nots” in the world as one of the central risks in the global risk landscape. However, research on the role of communication in reducing knowledge disparities for emerging technologies is rare. More importantly, little research has tracked knowledge gaps about emerging technologies in representative populations over …
Misperceptions in Polarized Politics: The Role of Knowledge, Religiosity, and Media
Many Americans hold distorted views of elected officials and, as our study shows, the blame is due partly to our ideological biases and partly to mass media. Analyzing a nationally representative online survey, we corroborate recent research that found that one in five Americans still believe president Barack Obama is a Muslim and that almost seven in ten mistakenly think Sarah Palin, and not Saturday Night Live ’s Tina Fey, was the first to say …
An exploration of state legislator communication technology use and importance
This article explores the importance and communication frequency associated with legislator use of communication technologies (CTs). Demographic variations are examined. Our results suggest that significant complexity surrounds legislator utilization of CTs for their interactions with peers and constituents. For example, we conclude that: (a) legislators find mature CTs more important than Internet-enabled CTs; (b) legislator age and years in off…
Laboratory Safety and Nanotechnology Workers: An Analysis of Current Guidelines in the USA
Is Facebook Making Us Dumber? Exploring Social Media Use as a Predictor of Political Knowledge
With social networking site (SNS) use now ubiquitous in American culture, researchers have started paying attention to its effects in a variety of domains. This study explores the relationships between measures of Facebook use and political knowledge levels using a pair of representative samples of U.S. adults. We find that although the mere use of Facebook was unrelated to political knowledge scores, how Facebook users report engaging with the S…
Opposing ends of the spectrum: Exploring trust in scientific and religious authorities
Given the ethical questions that surround emerging science, this study is interested in studying public trust in scientific and religious authorities for information about the risks and benefits of science. Using data from a nationally representative survey of American adults, we employ regression analysis to better understand the relationships between several variables—including values, knowledge, and media attention—and trust in religious organ…
Are attitudes toward labeling nano products linked to attitudes toward GMO? Exploring a potential ‘spillover’ effect for attitudes toward controversial technologies
We present an analysis of how citizens form attitudes about labeling nanotechnology, building on previous work on the socio-cultural dynamics under publics’ perceptions of risks and governance of emerging technologies. We examine whether individuals’ views about labeling nanotechnology products are correlated with their attitudes about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which we argue offers preliminary support for a ‘spillover’ effect, such …
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
The effect of comment moderation on perceived bias in science news
Uncivil comments following online news articles about issues of science and technology have been shown to lead to biased interpretations of the news content itself. Using an experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey, we provide evidence that cues about comment moderation ‒ even without any change in the comments themselves ‒ have the potential to alleviate this so-called nasty effect. Participants exposed to uncivil comments that …
Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: An Approach to Creating and Analyzing Robust Survey Scales
Larson, K., E. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. York, S. Meerow, P. Coseo, D. L. Childers, and D. Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating and analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology and Society 24(2):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207
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