George Gaskell
Biographic Data
| ID | 335236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Gaskell |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaskell |
| SIGNATURE | GASKELL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6135-9496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 654 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Less is more: Information overload in the labelling of fish and aquaculture products
Food labels have been used extensively for informing consumers to make more rational and safer decisions. However, this carries the risk of confusing consumers with multiple claims which may distract from key information such as the country of origin of the product. To inform the European legislation, we have tested labels on fish and aquaculture products in three separate experiments, across several European Member States. The main results showe…
The impact of online platform transparency of information on consumers’ choices
Millions of Europeans use online platforms with almost blind trust that the platforms operate in the interests of the consumer. However, the presentation of search results, transparency about contractual parties and the publication of user reviews that contribute to the value of online platforms in Europe's Single Digital Market also pose significant risks regarding consumer protection and market competition. The current study investigates how en…
Does a ‘protective’ message reduce the impact of an advergame promoting unhealthy foods to children? An experimental study in Spain and The Netherlands
Labels as nudges? An experimental study of car eco-labels
This article presents the results of a laboratory experiment and an online multi-country experiment testing the effect of motor vehicle eco-labels on consumers. The laboratory study featured a discrete choice task and questions on comprehension, while the ten countries online experiment included measures of willingness to pay and comprehension. Labels focusing on fuel economy or running costs are better understood, and influence choice about mone…
Do closed survey questions overestimate public perceptions of food risks
In this paper, we show that the widely accepted methodology for the assessment of risk perception – Likert-type survey questions featuring a set of risks with fixed response alternatives measuring the extent of worry or concern – may overestimate food risk perception. Using a European representative sample survey (n = 26,961) that included an open-ended question asking about problems and risks with food and eating, followed by a battery of closed…
The Role of Plurality and Context in Social Values: The Role of Plurality and Context in Social Values
The study of social values has its origins in the study of both cross cultural and within cultural differences in latent or manifest definitions of the right social order to achieve the good life. To this extent, the social scientific literature is replete with references to them. Yet, researchers either use the term values Social values are often used interchangeably with that of attitudes or treated as a post-hoc explanatory concept. When value…
Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations
The challenge of intercultural relations has become an important issue in many societies. In spite of the claimed value of intercultural diversity, successful outcomes as predicted by the contact hypothesis are but one possibility; on occasions intercultural contact leads to intolerance and hostility. Research has documented that one key mediator of contact is perspective taking. Differences in perspective are significant in shaping perceptions o…
Social Representations Theory: A Progressive Research Programme for Social Psychology
The study " Psychoanalysis-its image and its public " intimates that common sense is increasingly informed by science. But common sense asserts its autonomy and, in turn, may affect the trajectory of science. This is a process that leads to many differentiations-in common sense, in scientific innovation and in political and regulatory structures. Bauer and Gaskell's toblerone model of triangles of mediation provided a distillation of their readin…
A theory of risk colonization: The spiralling regulatory logics of societal and institutional risk
Explanations of the growing importance of risk to regulation identify three processes; the need to respond to newly created and discovered risks; the growth of regulatory frameworks; and the use of the risk instrument as an organizing idea for decision-making in modernity. Synthesizing these explanations, we propose a theory of risk colonization. We introduce a distinction between societal and institutional risks, the former referring to threats …
Imagining nanotechnology: Cultural support for technological innovation in Europe and the United States
This paper compares public perceptions of technologies in the United States and Europe. Asked whether nanotechnology will improve our way of life, 50 percent of the US sample say “yes” and 35 percent say “don’t know.” The European figures are almost the mirror image, 29 percent saying “yes” and 53 percent saying “don’t know.” People in the US are also more optimistic than Europeans about eight more familiar technologies. We suggest that people in…
GM Foods and the Misperception of Risk Perception
Public opposition to genetically modified (GM) food and crops is widely interpreted as the result of the public's misperception of the risks. With scientific assessment pointing to no unique risks from GM crops and foods, a strategy of accurate risk communication from trusted sources has been advocated. This is based on the assumption that the benefits of GM crops and foods are self‐evident. Informed by the interpretation of some qualitative inte…
Narrative and Systemic Modes of Economic Thinking
This paper concerns expert and lay economic thinking. A number of perspectives are reviewed, leading to a conceptualization which draws upon Habermas’s distinction between system and lifeworld and Bruner’s account of narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought. Qualitative empirical work conducted in Chile is analysed within a framework of systemic and narrative modes of economic thinking. Five aspects of lay and expert economic thought are ident…
Handbook of Ethnography
Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso…
Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound
Biotechnology and the European public
Individual and Group Interviewing
Telescoping of Landmark Events
Journal Article Telescoping of Landmark Events: Implications for Survey Research Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DANIEL B. WRIGHT, DANIEL B. WRIGHT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Qu…
Worlds Apart? The Reception of Genetically Modified Foods in Europe and the U.S.
Recent controversies about genetically modified foods in the United Kingdom and several other European countries highlight the apparent differences that exist in public opinion on this subject across the Atlantic. Why are people in the United States seemingly untroubled by a technology that causes Europeans so many difficulties? The results of survey research on public perceptions of biotechnology in Europe and the United States during 1996–1997,…
Towards a Paradigm for Research on Social Representations
Based on Moscovici’s (1961) classical study on the cultivation of psychoanalytic ideas in France in the 1950’s and our own research on modern biotechnology, we propose a paradigm for researching social representations. Following a consideration of the nature of representations and of the ‘iconoclastic suspicion’ that haunts them, we propose a model of the emergence of meaning relating three elements: subjects, objects, and projects. The basic uni…
Young People's Ownership and Uses of New and Old Forms of Media in Britain and the Netherlands
Using data obtained in a national survey carried out in Britain ( N = 1309) and the Netherlands ( N = 1355), this article compares British and Dutch children and young people aged 6-17 with respect to: (1) the availability of different media in children's homes, and particularly in the children's own room; (2) the amount of time spent on different media; and (3) the gratifications associated with the use of different types of media. Attention is …
Flashbulb memory assumptions: Using national surveys to explore cognitive phenomena
Implicit in most flashbulb memory research are three assumptions: that major news events will be important for almost everyone in the chosen sample, that people's ratings of memory quality are reliable and that a detailed recollection of personal circumstances implies a vivid memory. Using two general population surveys of Great Britain (total N = 3160), we examine each of these assumptions for two events that have recently been used in flashbulb…
An economic analysis of the resettlement of people with mild learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
Survey Questions About the Frequency of Vaguely Defined Events: The Effects of Response Alternative
Journal Article SURVEY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FREQUENCY OF VAGUELY DEFINED EVENTS: THE EFFECTS OF RESPONSE ALTERNATIVES Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL GEORGE D. GASKELL is senior lecturer, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, COLM A. O'MUKCHEARTAIGH is senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, DANIEL B. WRIGHT is research officer, Department of Social Psychology, London Scho…
Measuring scientific interest: The effect of knowledge questions on interest ratings
Research into the publics' interest in, knowledge of and attitudes towards science has captured the attention of politicians and educators. Sample survey research has been employed to assess the diverse aspects of the public understanding of science. However, surveys are subject to various biases that may affect the findings, calling into question both the reliability and the validity of the measures concerned. In this study we look at one common…
Intensifiers in Behavioral Frequency Questions
Journal Article INTENSIFIERS IN BEHAVIORAL FREQUENCY QUESTIONS Get access COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH, COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH senior lecturer The Department of Statistics, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL senior lecturer Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Handbook of Ethnography
Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso…
Towards a Paradigm for Research on Social Representations
Based on Moscovici’s (1961) classical study on the cultivation of psychoanalytic ideas in France in the 1950’s and our own research on modern biotechnology, we propose a paradigm for researching social representations. Following a consideration of the nature of representations and of the ‘iconoclastic suspicion’ that haunts them, we propose a model of the emergence of meaning relating three elements: subjects, objects, and projects. The basic uni…
A theory of risk colonization: The spiralling regulatory logics of societal and institutional risk
Explanations of the growing importance of risk to regulation identify three processes; the need to respond to newly created and discovered risks; the growth of regulatory frameworks; and the use of the risk instrument as an organizing idea for decision-making in modernity. Synthesizing these explanations, we propose a theory of risk colonization. We introduce a distinction between societal and institutional risks, the former referring to threats …
Social Representations Theory: A Progressive Research Programme for Social Psychology
The study " Psychoanalysis-its image and its public " intimates that common sense is increasingly informed by science. But common sense asserts its autonomy and, in turn, may affect the trajectory of science. This is a process that leads to many differentiations-in common sense, in scientific innovation and in political and regulatory structures. Bauer and Gaskell's toblerone model of triangles of mediation provided a distillation of their readin…
Telescoping of Landmark Events
Journal Article Telescoping of Landmark Events: Implications for Survey Research Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DANIEL B. WRIGHT, DANIEL B. WRIGHT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Qu…
Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations
The challenge of intercultural relations has become an important issue in many societies. In spite of the claimed value of intercultural diversity, successful outcomes as predicted by the contact hypothesis are but one possibility; on occasions intercultural contact leads to intolerance and hostility. Research has documented that one key mediator of contact is perspective taking. Differences in perspective are significant in shaping perceptions o…
The Role of Plurality and Context in Social Values: The Role of Plurality and Context in Social Values
The study of social values has its origins in the study of both cross cultural and within cultural differences in latent or manifest definitions of the right social order to achieve the good life. To this extent, the social scientific literature is replete with references to them. Yet, researchers either use the term values Social values are often used interchangeably with that of attitudes or treated as a post-hoc explanatory concept. When value…
The relative contribution of verbal, vocal, and visual channels to person perception: Experiment and critique
Survey Questions About the Frequency of Vaguely Defined Events: The Effects of Response Alternative
Journal Article SURVEY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FREQUENCY OF VAGUELY DEFINED EVENTS: THE EFFECTS OF RESPONSE ALTERNATIVES Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL GEORGE D. GASKELL is senior lecturer, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, COLM A. O'MUKCHEARTAIGH is senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, DANIEL B. WRIGHT is research officer, Department of Social Psychology, London Scho…
Does a ‘protective’ message reduce the impact of an advergame promoting unhealthy foods to children? An experimental study in Spain and The Netherlands
Labels as nudges? An experimental study of car eco-labels
This article presents the results of a laboratory experiment and an online multi-country experiment testing the effect of motor vehicle eco-labels on consumers. The laboratory study featured a discrete choice task and questions on comprehension, while the ten countries online experiment included measures of willingness to pay and comprehension. Labels focusing on fuel economy or running costs are better understood, and influence choice about mone…
Punitiveness in response to films varying in content: A cross‐national field study of aggression
Punitiveness in male movie‐goers in London, Philadelphia, Rome and Toronto was measured before or after they attended films varying in content (aggressive, sexual, neutral) and arousal potential (low, high). A second dependent variable, altruism, was also assessed for some Ss. Hypotheses stemming from social learning theory and arousal theory were tested by comparing changes in punitiveness at aggressive, nonaggressive arousing (sexual) and nonag…
Effect of pretesting on measures of individual risk preferences
The present study uses a modified Solomon's four groups design with an additional expectancy control group to assess artifacts associated with pretesting in the measurement of individual risk preferences. Pretesting induces a cautious bias in posttest scores with either group discussion or individual familiarization as the experimental treatment. Further analysis shows that individual familiarization induces a significant cautious shift and confi…
Less is more: Information overload in the labelling of fish and aquaculture products
Food labels have been used extensively for informing consumers to make more rational and safer decisions. However, this carries the risk of confusing consumers with multiple claims which may distract from key information such as the country of origin of the product. To inform the European legislation, we have tested labels on fish and aquaculture products in three separate experiments, across several European Member States. The main results showe…
Narrative and Systemic Modes of Economic Thinking
This paper concerns expert and lay economic thinking. A number of perspectives are reviewed, leading to a conceptualization which draws upon Habermas’s distinction between system and lifeworld and Bruner’s account of narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought. Qualitative empirical work conducted in Chile is analysed within a framework of systemic and narrative modes of economic thinking. Five aspects of lay and expert economic thought are ident…
Young People's Ownership and Uses of New and Old Forms of Media in Britain and the Netherlands
Using data obtained in a national survey carried out in Britain ( N = 1309) and the Netherlands ( N = 1355), this article compares British and Dutch children and young people aged 6-17 with respect to: (1) the availability of different media in children's homes, and particularly in the children's own room; (2) the amount of time spent on different media; and (3) the gratifications associated with the use of different types of media. Attention is …
An investigation of youths' attributions for unemployment and their political attitudes
Do closed survey questions overestimate public perceptions of food risks
In this paper, we show that the widely accepted methodology for the assessment of risk perception – Likert-type survey questions featuring a set of risks with fixed response alternatives measuring the extent of worry or concern – may overestimate food risk perception. Using a European representative sample survey (n = 26,961) that included an open-ended question asking about problems and risks with food and eating, followed by a battery of closed…
Flashbulb memory assumptions: Using national surveys to explore cognitive phenomena
Implicit in most flashbulb memory research are three assumptions: that major news events will be important for almost everyone in the chosen sample, that people's ratings of memory quality are reliable and that a detailed recollection of personal circumstances implies a vivid memory. Using two general population surveys of Great Britain (total N = 3160), we examine each of these assumptions for two events that have recently been used in flashbulb…
Intensifiers in Behavioral Frequency Questions
Journal Article INTENSIFIERS IN BEHAVIORAL FREQUENCY QUESTIONS Get access COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH, COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH senior lecturer The Department of Statistics, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL senior lecturer Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Young blacks’ hostility to the police: An investigation into its causes
Effect of pretesting on measures of individual risk preferences
The present study uses a modified Solomon's four groups design with an additional expectancy control group to assess artifacts associated with pretesting in the measurement of individual risk preferences. Pretesting induces a cautious bias in posttest scores with either group discussion or individual familiarization as the experimental treatment. Further analysis shows that individual familiarization induces a significant cautious shift and confi…
Punitiveness in response to films varying in content: A cross‐national field study of aggression
Punitiveness in male movie‐goers in London, Philadelphia, Rome and Toronto was measured before or after they attended films varying in content (aggressive, sexual, neutral) and arousal potential (low, high). A second dependent variable, altruism, was also assessed for some Ss. Hypotheses stemming from social learning theory and arousal theory were tested by comparing changes in punitiveness at aggressive, nonaggressive arousing (sexual) and nonag…
The Origins of Crowd Psychology: Gustave Le Bon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic
Youth and Social Conflict: Sport and Spectator Violence
Alienated' black youth: An investigation of 'conventional wisdom' explanations
The relative contribution of verbal, vocal, and visual channels to person perception: Experiment and critique
Consumer energy research: Progress and prospects
Young blacks’ hostility to the police: An investigation into its causes
An investigation of youths' attributions for unemployment and their political attitudes
The Crowd in Contemporary Britain
Foreword - Lord Scarman The Crowd in Context - George Gaskell and Robert Benewick Violent Disorders in Twentieth Century Britain - Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, Tim Newburn and Ivan Waddington Street Life, Ethnicity and Social Policy - John Edwards, Robin Oakley and Sean Carey Front Line Supervision in the British Police Service - Michael Chatterton Flashpoints of Public Disorder - David Waddington, Karen Jones and Chas Chritcher The Peaceful Cro…
Measuring scientific interest: The effect of knowledge questions on interest ratings
Research into the publics' interest in, knowledge of and attitudes towards science has captured the attention of politicians and educators. Sample survey research has been employed to assess the diverse aspects of the public understanding of science. However, surveys are subject to various biases that may affect the findings, calling into question both the reliability and the validity of the measures concerned. In this study we look at one common…
Intensifiers in Behavioral Frequency Questions
Journal Article INTENSIFIERS IN BEHAVIORAL FREQUENCY QUESTIONS Get access COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH, COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH senior lecturer The Department of Statistics, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL senior lecturer Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Survey Questions About the Frequency of Vaguely Defined Events: The Effects of Response Alternative
Journal Article SURVEY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FREQUENCY OF VAGUELY DEFINED EVENTS: THE EFFECTS OF RESPONSE ALTERNATIVES Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL GEORGE D. GASKELL is senior lecturer, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, COLM A. O'MUKCHEARTAIGH is senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, DANIEL B. WRIGHT is research officer, Department of Social Psychology, London Scho…
An economic analysis of the resettlement of people with mild learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
Young People's Ownership and Uses of New and Old Forms of Media in Britain and the Netherlands
Using data obtained in a national survey carried out in Britain ( N = 1309) and the Netherlands ( N = 1355), this article compares British and Dutch children and young people aged 6-17 with respect to: (1) the availability of different media in children's homes, and particularly in the children's own room; (2) the amount of time spent on different media; and (3) the gratifications associated with the use of different types of media. Attention is …
Flashbulb memory assumptions: Using national surveys to explore cognitive phenomena
Implicit in most flashbulb memory research are three assumptions: that major news events will be important for almost everyone in the chosen sample, that people's ratings of memory quality are reliable and that a detailed recollection of personal circumstances implies a vivid memory. Using two general population surveys of Great Britain (total N = 3160), we examine each of these assumptions for two events that have recently been used in flashbulb…
Worlds Apart? The Reception of Genetically Modified Foods in Europe and the U.S.
Recent controversies about genetically modified foods in the United Kingdom and several other European countries highlight the apparent differences that exist in public opinion on this subject across the Atlantic. Why are people in the United States seemingly untroubled by a technology that causes Europeans so many difficulties? The results of survey research on public perceptions of biotechnology in Europe and the United States during 1996–1997,…
Towards a Paradigm for Research on Social Representations
Based on Moscovici’s (1961) classical study on the cultivation of psychoanalytic ideas in France in the 1950’s and our own research on modern biotechnology, we propose a paradigm for researching social representations. Following a consideration of the nature of representations and of the ‘iconoclastic suspicion’ that haunts them, we propose a model of the emergence of meaning relating three elements: subjects, objects, and projects. The basic uni…
Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound
Biotechnology and the European public
Individual and Group Interviewing
Telescoping of Landmark Events
Journal Article Telescoping of Landmark Events: Implications for Survey Research Get access GEORGE D. GASKELL, GEORGE D. GASKELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DANIEL B. WRIGHT, DANIEL B. WRIGHT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH COLM A. O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Qu…
Handbook of Ethnography
Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso…
GM Foods and the Misperception of Risk Perception
Public opposition to genetically modified (GM) food and crops is widely interpreted as the result of the public's misperception of the risks. With scientific assessment pointing to no unique risks from GM crops and foods, a strategy of accurate risk communication from trusted sources has been advocated. This is based on the assumption that the benefits of GM crops and foods are self‐evident. Informed by the interpretation of some qualitative inte…
Narrative and Systemic Modes of Economic Thinking
This paper concerns expert and lay economic thinking. A number of perspectives are reviewed, leading to a conceptualization which draws upon Habermas’s distinction between system and lifeworld and Bruner’s account of narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought. Qualitative empirical work conducted in Chile is analysed within a framework of systemic and narrative modes of economic thinking. Five aspects of lay and expert economic thought are ident…
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