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Public Views of Climate Science Hinge on Solutions, Study Finds

2014-11-10 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: People often evaluate scientific evidence not on the basis of its perceived merits, but on whether they agree with the policy implications of the research, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Using issues like climate change and air pollution as test cases, Duke University researchers sought to determine if what they call a "solution aversion" bias could be detected among self-identified Republican or Democratic survey participants. In one example,...

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