Public Attitudes to Genomics: Vignette Studies, 2004

These vignette studies form part of a wider project to provide a basic understanding of current attitudes among the public towards a range of new genetic technologies. Public attitudes and behaviour toward developments in this area of science are likely to be conditional, at least in part, upon consideration of contextual factors. The vignette studies were designed specifically to investigate:<ul><li>the effect of contextual factors upon intended behaviour and the cognitive and affective components of attitudes</li><li>the degree to which simple survey attitude questions might hide genuinely ambivalent responses to genetic technologies</li><li>the extent to which any context effects are domain specific (the domains being human, plant and animal applications of genetic technologies)</li></ul>