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Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change
Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested‐interest groups to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change...
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600008 |
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author | van der Linden, Sander Leiserowitz, Anthony Rosenthal, Seth Maibach, Edward |
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description | Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested‐interest groups to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change through organized “disinformation campaigns,” identifying ways to effectively engage with the public about the issue across the political spectrum has proven difficult. A growing body of research suggests that one promising way to counteract the politicization of science is to convey the high level of normative agreement (“consensus”) among experts about the reality of human‐caused climate change. Yet, much prior research examining public opinion dynamics in the context of climate change has done so under conditions with limited external validity. Moreover, no research to date has examined how to protect the public from the spread of influential misinformation about climate change. The current research bridges this divide by exploring how people evaluate and process consensus cues in a polarized information environment. Furthermore, evidence is provided that it is possible to pre‐emptively protect (“inoculate”) public attitudes about climate change against real‐world misinformation. |
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spelling | pubmed-66071592019-09-27 Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change van der Linden, Sander Leiserowitz, Anthony Rosenthal, Seth Maibach, Edward Glob Chall Full Papers Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested‐interest groups to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change through organized “disinformation campaigns,” identifying ways to effectively engage with the public about the issue across the political spectrum has proven difficult. A growing body of research suggests that one promising way to counteract the politicization of science is to convey the high level of normative agreement (“consensus”) among experts about the reality of human‐caused climate change. Yet, much prior research examining public opinion dynamics in the context of climate change has done so under conditions with limited external validity. Moreover, no research to date has examined how to protect the public from the spread of influential misinformation about climate change. The current research bridges this divide by exploring how people evaluate and process consensus cues in a polarized information environment. Furthermore, evidence is provided that it is possible to pre‐emptively protect (“inoculate”) public attitudes about climate change against real‐world misinformation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6607159/ /pubmed/31565263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600008 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Full Papers van der Linden, Sander Leiserowitz, Anthony Rosenthal, Seth Maibach, Edward Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title | Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title_full | Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title_fullStr | Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title_full_unstemmed | Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title_short | Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change |
title_sort | inoculating the public against misinformation about climate change |
topic | Full Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600008 |
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