Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities
because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Climate …

Increased interest in climate change education and the growing recognition of the
challenges inherent to addressing this issue create an opportunity to conduct a systematic …

The study reports on a meta-analysis of attempts to correct misinformation (k= 65). Results
indicate that corrective messages have a moderate influence on belief in misinformation (r …

Recent growth in the number of studies examining belief in climate change is a positive
development, but presents an ironic challenge in that it can be difficult for academics …

Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an
institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as …

There has been an intensive debate in the field of climate change education about what
predictors influence youth's climate-related behavior and what educational strategies and …

Abstract The Gateway Belief Model describes a process of attitudinal change where a shift in
people's perception of the scientific consensus on an issue leads to subsequent changes in …

Global climate change threatens the health, economic prospects, and basic food and water
sources of people. A wide range of changes in household energy behavior is needed to …

It is intuitive to assume that concern about climate change should be preceded by
knowledge about its effects,. However, recent research suggests that knowledge about …

Of this article's seven experiments, the first five demonstrate that virtually no Americans know
the basic global warming mechanism. Fortunately, Experiments 2–5 found that 2–45 min of …