The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science
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In one experimental study, underscoring the consensus was particularly effective for people whose worldview otherwise might have predisposed them towards rejection of climate science.
“In one experimental study, underscoring the consensus was particularly effective for people whose worldview otherwise might have predisposed them towards rejection of climate science [38].”
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When people are informed of the pervasive consensus about the fundamentals of climate change, they become more likely to endorse the basic premise of global warming, and they attribute a larger share of the observed warming trend to human CO2 emissions.
“Recent research has shown that the role of worldview may be attenuated by underscoring the breadth of consensus among scientists: When people are informed of the pervasive consensus about the fundamentals of climate change, they become more likely to endorse the basic premise of global warming, and they attribute a larger share of the observed warming trend to human CO2 emissions [37], [38].”
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These general and robust findings help identify communicative means by which motivated reasoning can be attenuated or circumvented.
“These general and robust findings help identify communicative means by which the motivated reasoning can be attenuated or circumvented [5], [32], [38], [50].”
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A further 3 items queried scientific propositions that were also used in previous research.
“A further 3 items queried scientific propositions that were also used in previous research [27], [38].”
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- Authors
- Lewandowsky, S., Gignac, G. E., & Vaughan, S.
- Affiliations
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Lewandowsky, Stephan
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2012-10-28
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 399-404
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2089347171
- Semantic Scholar
- 74019f20176343c9d20dcffd389854d3a11c1f44
- Cited by
- 527
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 41 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 78.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- public acceptance of science, anthropogenic climate change, worldview, climate change concern, climate change skepticism, science communication
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