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Why we are poles apart on climate change

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  • Dan Kahan

    (Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard professor of law and professor of psychology at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.)

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The problem isn’t the public’s reasoning capacity; it’s the polluted science-communication environment that drives people apart, says Dan Kahan.

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  • Dan Kahan, 2012. "Why we are poles apart on climate change," Nature, Nature, vol. 488(7411), pages 255-255, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:488:y:2012:i:7411:d:10.1038_488255a
    DOI: 10.1038/488255a
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    4. Monika Pompeo & Nina Serdarevic, 2021. "Is information enough? The case of Republicans and climate change," Discussion Papers 2021-08, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
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    7. Stone, Daniel, 2018. ""Unmotivated Bias" and Partisan Hostility: Empirical Evidence," SocArXiv hr5ba, Center for Open Science.
    8. Cristina Gómez-Román & Maria Luisa Lima & Gloria Seoane & Mónica Alzate & Marcos Dono & José-Manuel Sabucedo, 2020. "Testing Common Knowledge: Are Northern Europeans and Millennials More Concerned about the Environment?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, December.
    9. Agneman, Gustav & Henriks, Sofia & Bäck, Hanna & Renström, Emma, 2024. "On the nexus between material and ideological determinants of climate policy support," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 219(C).
    10. Sonny Rosenthal & Pengya Ai, 2024. "Media use, interpersonal communication, and personal relevance as external and internal representations of climate change," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 177(11), pages 1-22, November.
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    14. Jennifer C. Cole & Phillip J. Ehret & David K. Sherman & Leaf Boven, 2022. "Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 1-21, July.
    15. Dylan Bugden, 2022. "Denial and distrust: explaining the partisan climate gap," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 170(3), pages 1-23, February.
    16. Danny Philipp Nef & Daniel Neneth & Patteson Dini & Carmenza Robledo Abad & Pius Kruetli, 2021. "How local communities attribute livelihood vulnerabilities to climate change and other causes: a case study in North Vanuatu," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 168(3), pages 1-20, October.
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    19. Stone, Daniel F., 2019. "“Unmotivated bias” and partisan hostility: Empirical evidence," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 12-26.

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