Bridging Climate Communication Divides: Beyond the Partisan Gap

Science Communication

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 805-812

  Pearson, Adam R ^a,b   Schuldt, Jonathon P ^c  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; environment; intergroup relations; intragroup processes; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946129856     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547015611131     Document Type: Article

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