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Reply to 'Culture versus cognition is a false dilemma'

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Despite agreeing with our call for more field studies1, van der Linden et al. criticize our account of why such work is needed2. We respond in three points.

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    Dan M. Kahan

  2. Cultural Cognition Project, Yale Law School, PO Box 208215, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Katherine Carpenter

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Kahan, D., Carpenter, K. Reply to 'Culture versus cognition is a false dilemma'. Nature Clim Change 7, 457–458 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3324

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