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Public Perception Research
Topic Started: Oct 24 2016, 06:59 PM (1,097 Views)
Acinonyx Jubatus
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I'm in a first-year English class at University and we're supposed to write a formal essay on the topic of our choice. I thought I'd write about the public perception of palaeontology and the average person's resistance to accepting new discoveries (Case in point: feathered raptors.) The only sticking point is we need at least 2 peer-reviewed references cited in our bibliography. I was wondering if anything has been written on this subject (or a similar one) in a scholarly journal, and if so where can I find it? Thanks in advance.
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It won't be easy to find something like that peer-reviewed, but numerous paleontologists who've had other pieces of work published have lamented this topic at great length in public discussions. I'd recommend inquiring with your teachers or faculty if you could potentially cite such sources and then also cite their relevant peer-reviewed work as evidence of their credentials on the topic.
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Yeah, there's not a lot of work out there on it... but a while back I came across this article about paleoart in Palaeontologia Electronica, and it might be a good place to start: State of the Paleoart

Hopefully this helps a bit. Other than that I would go with Stargatedalek's advice.
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Yeah, Stargate's got the right idea.

Given that it's about public perception, and such blogs are written by actual palaeontologists, it should be worth something.

But I do recall my university back in the UK being a bit iffy on using blogs as references. Granted, all of our coursework was either fieldwork or scientific review papers, so it was all generally less subjective than what you're working with. I suppose mileage may vary in this case.
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I'm not very knowledgeable as to where you could find sources on public perception of palaeontology (a quick search on my uni's search engine didn't turn up anything significant). On the topic of resistance to change, there's been a lot of research so you shouldn't have too much trouble locating some peer-reviewed articles there.

Some examples would be "Ambivalence Toward Imposed Change: The Conflict Between Dispositional Resistance to Change and the Orientation Toward the Change Agent" by Oreg and Sverdlik, or "Overcoming Resistance to Change and Enhancing Creative Performance" by Hyon, Bloom and Crant.

I don't think there's been much research done on communication about palaeontology, so the subject you chose is definitely a challenge. Good luck!
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saurianne
Oct 25 2016, 12:52 PM
Yeah, there's not a lot of work out there on it... but a while back I came across this article about paleoart in Palaeontologia Electronica, and it might be a good place to start: State of the Paleoart

Hopefully this helps a bit. Other than that I would go with Stargatedalek's advice.
Thanks, that's actually really, really helpful! Is it peer-reviewed? It doesn't say.

And thanks to everyone else who posted! Your input has been invaluable.
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"Founded in 1997, Palaeontologia Electronica (PE) is the longest running open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal and covers all aspects of palaeontology."

From their "About PE" section
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Has anyone got the link to the paper describing the quill knobs on Velociraptor, and possibly also whatever's been written on Tyrannosaurus lips/feathers (if anything?)
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Here's the Velociraptor quill knobs paper, as for the whole lips thing, there aren't any published papers so far AFAIK, but there's at least this web article if that's of use, and there are blogs such as Jaime Headden's that have discussed the subject in general.
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As for the Tyrannosaurus feather issue, how about extrapolating from the Yutyrannus paper here i.e. if this big carnivorous dinosaur has it, why not rex?
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As for the Tyrannosaurus feather issue, how about extrapolating from the Yutyrannus paper here i.e. if this big carnivorous dinosaur has it, why not rex?
I thought of that, and I'll use it tentatively if I have to; however, I doubt my audience knows a lot about phylogenetic bracketing.
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Has anyone got Owen's original 1842 paper coining the term Dinosaur?
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This should be the publication Owen defined Dinosauria.
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