The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science

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Consensus Messaging Shifts Beliefs About Climate Change in a Field Experiment

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University students’ climate resilience: the roles of scientific consensus messaging, trust in science, and climate change attitudes

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Intellectual Autonomy

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Individual Characteristics in the Comprehension of Pandemic Video Communication: Randomized Controlled Between-Subjects Design

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The Building Blocks of Public Engagement

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Political Knowledge and Fractured Perceptions

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A Partisan and Polarized Issue in the United States

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Persuasion and Intellectual Autonomy

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1. Introduction: Genre in the Climate Debate

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Climate Security and the Military

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Communicating Ecology

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Seeing is believing

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ACTIVE LEARNING EFFECT ON THE PUBLIC’S PERCEPTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

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Introduction

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0001

Dueling Facts in Political Science

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0003

The Democratic Consequences of Dueling Facts

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0010

Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0013

Conclusion

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0016

The Psychology of Fact Perceptions II

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0006

A Theory of Intuitive Epistemology

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0008

Dueling Facts in American Politics

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0004

What Smarter People Have Said About Facts

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0002

Polarized Leaders Versus Polarized Values

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0007

Your Facts or Mine?

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0005

Disdain and Disengagement

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0011

Citizen Reponses to Fact-Checking

Marietta, M., Barker, D. C., Nalder, K., & Martin, D. J. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0014

The Roots of Certainty

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0009

Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Durability

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.003.0015

Decision Analysis of Surgical Treatment Indications for Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression

Pahuta, M. A. (2019) · uO Research (University of Ottawa) · doi:10.20381/ruor-23634

Death Penalty Beliefs: How Attitudes are Shaped and RevisedPreprint

Miske, O. (2019) · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)

Individuals in International Relations

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0002

The Structural Context for Billionaires

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0003

The Political Agency of Billionaires

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0004

Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific InformationPreprint

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Effective Communication About Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise

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Concluding Thoughts

Levy, N. L. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.003.0007

Nudging Well

Levy, N. L. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.003.0006

How Our Minds Are Made Up

Levy, N. L. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.003.0003

Culturing Belief

Levy, N. L. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.003.0002

Promoting Climate Actions: A Cognitive-Constraints ApproachPreprint

Lee, J.-H., Wong, E., & Cheng, P. W. (2021) · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/5g7aq

Dare to Think?

Levy, N. L. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.003.0004

References

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Subjective Reasoning

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Introduction

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0001

Analytical Conclusion

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0008

Economy

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0006

Security

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.003.0005

Three Essays on the Politics of American Social ProgramsPreprint

Zhang, B. (2020) · Thesis Commons (OSF Preprints) · doi:10.31237/osf.io/7aytg

A Paradox of Information Aggregation

Mercier, H. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197636916.003.0014

Scientist perspectives toward the status and management of gray wolves in the western United States

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Opinion Formation in Light of the Facts

Boudreau, C., & MacKenzie, S. A. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197578384.003.0012

Climate Change Beliefs and their Correlates in Latin AmericaPreprint

Spektor, M., Fasolin, G. N., & Camargo, J. (2023) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2224241/v2

Preface: Rational Social Animals Go Wild

Levy, N. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.002.0006

Copyright Page

Levy, N. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895325.002.0003

Anderson and Goldman on Identifying Experts

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0003

Persuasion and Paternalism

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0004

What Is Non-Ideal Epistemology?

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0001

Preface

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.002.0006

Copyright Page

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.002.0003

The Obligation to Engage

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0006

Liberatory Virtue and Vice Epistemology

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0007

Dedication

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.002.0004

Scepticism Motivated

McKenna, R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192888822.003.0008

Climate Change Beliefs and their Correlates in Latin AmericaPreprint

Spektor, M., Fasolin, G. N., & Camargo, J. (2023) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2224241/v3

Copyright Page

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.002.0003

Dedication

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.002.0004

List of Figures and Tables

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.002.0007

List of Abbreviations

Hägel, P. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198852711.002.0008

Dedication

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.002.0008

Measurement Notes

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.005.0001

Copyright Page

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.002.0003

Prologue

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.002.0004

Preface

Marietta, M., & Barker, D. C. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190677176.002.0006

What is the IPCC’s assessment style and what shaped it?

Târziu, G. (2024) · Open Research Europe · doi:10.12688/openreseurope.18095.1

Review of: "The Contribution of the Rejection Mechanism to Scientific Knowledge Production: A View from Granular Interaction Thinking and Information Theories"

Coccia, M. (2024) · Qeios · doi:10.32388/riqwji

The Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming Matters

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Climate Scientists Virtually Unanimous

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Scientific truth or debate: On the link between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change

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Changes in perceived scientific consensus shift beliefs about climate change and GM food safety

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Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature

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