• DOI:10.1177/0002716214559002
Corpus ID: 149147565

Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization

@article{Kahan2015GeoengineeringAC,
  title={Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization},
  author={Dan Kahan and H. Jenkins-Smith and Tor Tarantola and C. Silva and Donald Braman},
  journal={The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
  year={2015},
  volume={658},
  pages={192 - 222}
}

Dan Kahan, H. Jenkins-Smith, +2 authors Donald Braman

Published 2015

Sociology

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

The cultural cognition thesis posits that individuals rely extensively on cultural meanings in forming perceptions of risk. The logic of the cultural cognition thesis suggests that a two-channel science communication strategy, combining information content (“Channel 1”) with cultural meanings (“Channel 2”), could promote open-minded assessment of information across diverse communities. We test this kind of communication strategy in a two-nation (United States, n = 1,500; England, n = 1,500… CONTINUE READING

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