Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change

Global Challenges

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  van der Linden, Sander ^a   Leiserowitz, Anthony ^b   Rosenthal, Seth ^b   Maibach, Edward ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; inoculation; motivated cognition; scientific consensus

Indexed keywords

EID: 85138430898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20566646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gch2.201600008     Document Type: Article

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