Aversion Preceding Rejection: Results of The Eurobarometer Survey 39.1 on Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering in Austria  

Oleh:

Torgersen, Helge ; Seifert, Franz

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 6 no. 2 (Apr. 1997), page 131-142.
Fulltext: 131PUS62.pdf (140.03KB)

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In late 1994, we performed a representative survey on attitudes to biotechnology and genetic engineering in Austria using the questionnaire applied in the Eurobarometer survey 39.1 of 1993. The results showed that support for genetic engineering in Austria was low compared to support in the rest of Europe. However, risks were perceived as being comparatively low, and the demand for government control was below average. Together with the very low level of knowledge and the reluctant optimism towards new technologies, the data suggested that, in Austria, the low level of acceptance might have been influenced by a conservative attitude to new technology rather than by any developed perception of the associated risk. However, when in 1996 the first releases of genetically modified organisms in Austria triggered widespread rejection, this was accompanied by a growing awareness of risk. Thus a more or less unreflected aversion to biotechnology seemed to precede risk perception in Austria.

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