Dems, GOP agree more than they think on climate change

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05 Nov 2019, 11:49 am

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“Despite what we often hear about the deep divisions between parties, we found that there is actually general agreement that climate change is real, that human activity causes climate change, and that we should do something about it,” said Leaf Van Boven, a psychology and neuroscience professor at CU Boulder and lead author of the study, published today in Perspectives on Psychological Science.

The researchers also found that people are more likely to support the same climate policy proposal when they think that their own political party supports it. And both Democrats and Republicans overestimate how much their peers oppose the ideas of the other party.

“We found that people routinely place party over policy and disagree for the sake of disagreeing,” Van Boven said.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/07/02/dems-gop-agree-more-they-think-climate-change

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Just how far apart are Republicans and Democrats when it comes to views on climate change?
Not nearly as far as most assume, according to new surveys of more than 2,000 adults. Despite the perceived political polarization in the U.S. Leaf Van Boven, a CU Boulder psychology professor and lead author of the study says they found that there is actually general agreement that climate change is real.

https://soundcloud.com/cuboulderlabratspodcast/leaf-van-boven-on-climate-policy-politics-study

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05 Nov 2019, 12:06 pm

yay?

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05 Nov 2019, 12:07 pm

Trump doesn’t believe in climate change...and has attempted to stifle those who do.

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05 Nov 2019, 12:27 pm

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teaching a child about the warming climate often raised concerns among parents about the issue. Fathers and conservative parents showed the biggest change in attitudes, and daughters were more effective than sons in shifting their parents’ views.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/

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05 Nov 2019, 1:34 pm

I hope the kids do convince those Republicans.

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05 Nov 2019, 1:50 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I hope the kids do convince those Republicans.

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The problem is that people tend to listen almost exclusively to their tribal leaders.

Psychological barriers to climate policy

https://youtu.be/hvDXxECXMgc

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05 Nov 2019, 1:59 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I hope the kids do convince those Republicans.

Republicans want tax cuts, so people can buy solar panels, eco-cars, and more expensive recycled grocery bags.

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05 Nov 2019, 2:00 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

I hope the kids do convince those Republicans.

Republicans want tax cuts, so people can buy solar panels, eco-cars, and more expensive recycled grocery bags.

Dems, GOP Agree More Than They Think On Climate Change

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05 Nov 2019, 2:17 pm

^ indeed

LoveNotHate wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

I hope the kids do convince those Republicans.

Republicans want tax cuts, so people can buy solar panels, eco-cars, and more expensive recycled grocery bags.

i like that way of looking at it.

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05 Nov 2019, 3:00 pm

Wait you're telling me people aren't actually thinking about policies, just taking a side? Color me shocked.

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05 Nov 2019, 3:20 pm

“We found that people routinely place party over policy and disagree for the sake of disagreeing,”

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05 Nov 2019, 3:25 pm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-political-opinions-change/

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In a recent experiment, we showed it is possible to trick people into changing their political views. In fact, we could get some people to adopt opinions that were directly opposite of their original ones. Our findings imply that we should rethink some of the ways we think about our own attitudes, and how they relate to the currently polarized political climate. When it comes to the actual political attitudes we hold, we are considerably more flexible than we think.

A powerful shaping factor about our social and political worlds is how they are structured by group belonging and identities. For instance, researchers have found that moral and emotion messages on contentious political topics, such as gun-control and climate change, spread more rapidly within rather than between ideologically like-minded networks. This echo-chamber problem seems to be made worse by the algorithms of social media companies who send us increasingly extreme content to fit our political preferences.

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