Research about attitudes toward science in China started in the early 1990s, and we were suffering a shortage of scholars and research institutions in this field. Under the guidance of the Outline of Civic Scientific Literacy Action Plan (2006-2010-2020), our country has included the “public attitudes toward science” into the scientific literacy evaluation system as the core element. Started with the attitude research theories, this article reviewed and summarized research about attitudes toward science. We finally proposed the insufficiency in the direction of the research about attitudes toward science.

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