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    Public reception of climate science: coherence, reliability, and independence

    Hahn, Ulrike and Harris, A.J.L. and Corner, A. (2016) Public reception of climate science: coherence, reliability, and independence. Topics in Cognitive Science 8 (1), pp. 180-195. ISSN 1756-8757.

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    Abstract

    Possible measures to mitigate climate change require global collective actions whose impacts will be felt by many, if not all. Implementing such actions requires successful communication of the reasons for them, and hence the underlying climate science, to a degree that far exceeds typical scientific issues which do not require large-scale societal response. Empirical studies have identified factors, such as the perceived level of consensus in scientific opinion and the perceived reliability of scientists, that can limit people's trust in science communicators and their subsequent acceptance of climate change claims. Little consideration has been given, however, to recent formal results within philosophy concerning the relationship between truth, the reliability of evidence sources, the coherence of multiple pieces of evidence/testimonies, and the impact of (non-)independence between sources of evidence. This study draws on these results to evaluate exactly what has (and, more important, has not yet) been established in the empirical literature about the factors that bias the public's reception of scientific communications about climate change.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Bayesian inference, Coherence, Consensus, Source credibility, Testimony
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Knowledge Lab
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2016 10:25
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:20
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13911

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