Overcoming Endpoint Bias in Climate Change Communication: The Case of Arctic Sea Ice Trends

Environmental Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 205-217

  Hardy, Bruce W ^a   Jamieson, Kathleen Hall ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate communication; endpoint bias; ideological bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994823918     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2016.1241814     Document Type: Article

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