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The reception of scientific ideas, especially fundamental ones such as those proposed by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein—when analyzed via an affective and comparative taxonomy—can be seen to take place within a field of certain obvious variables. These variables can be categorized along the following demarcations (some will apply more to scientific than popular reception): professional-disciplinary cultures, generational factors, philosophies of science, trans-national diffusion, religion, level of education, political ideology, wealth of a nation, and the imagined personas of scientists.
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Glick, T.F., Henderson, M.G. (2001). The Scientific and Popular Receptions of Darwin, Freud, and Einstein. In: Glick, T.F., Puig-Samper, M.A., Ruiz, R. (eds) The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 221. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0602-6_14
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