Types of Skepticism
This type of skepticism relates to knowledge or knowing about climate change.
What is epistemic skepticism?
A type of correlational research where one variable increases while the other variable decreases.
What is negative correlation?
This strategy involves having members of the same group persuade each other rather than out-group members.
What is in-group messaging?
This is the number of components in the Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale.
What is four?
This party in the US, Canada, Brazil, and Australia makes climate skepticism a key belief/viewpoint.
What is the conservative party?
This type of skepticism relates to taking action on climate change.
What is response skepticism?
A number ranges from -1 to +1 and captures the strength and direction of the correlation.
What is a correlation coefficient?
This strategy emphasizes additional benefits of climate action, such as improved air quality and national security.
What are co-benefits?
This component of intellectual humility involves being able to separate your ideas from your sense of self-worth.
What is independence of intellect and ego?
This company's internal documents from 1979 showed they accurately predicted climate warming but publicly contradicted their own data.
What is Exxon/ExxonMobil?
According to the 2024 Yale survey, this percentage of Americans believe global warming is happening.
What is 72%?
The correlation between voting on the left and believing in climate change.
(Hint: What is a _____ ______ correlation?)
What is a medium/strong positive correlation?
This refers to a group's expectation of what is appropriate and acceptable behavior for its members.
What are social norms?
This attribute is a stronger predicter of climate skepticism than IH.
What is political orientation?
This book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway documents how scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco to climate change.
What is 'Merchants of Doubt'?
According to the 2024 Yale survey, this percentage of Americans believe global warming is caused mostly by human activities.
What is 59%?
The correlation between believing in a free market and believing in climate change.
(Hint: What is a ______ ______ correlation?)
What is a medium/strong negative correlation
Information on what others are DOING.
(Hint: What is ________ norm information?)
What is descriptive norm information?
These two IH facets predicted reduced climate change skepticism in the study.
What are respect for others' viewpoints and lack of intellectual overconfidence?
This percentage of New York Times climate articles from 1980-2018 mentioned the basic mechanism of climate change.
What is 0.2% (or less than 1%)?
In Riverside County, California, this percentage of adults hear about global warming in the media at least weekly.
What is 30%?
According to the meta-analysis, what variable was the most positively correlated to a belief in climate change
(Hint: It's not voting on the left)
What is the New Ecological Paradigm?
Information on what is socially desirable.
(Hint: What is _______ norm information?)
What is injunctive norm information
This IH facet was the strongest predictor of trust in science and scientists.
What is openness to revising one's viewpoints?
What is the ability to be swayed by evidence?