Decision scientists have identified remedies for various cognitive biases that distort climate-change risk perceptions. Researchers must now use the same empirical methods to identify strategies for reproducing — in the tumult of the real world — results forged in the tranquillity of their labs.
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Kahan, D., Carpenter, K. Out of the lab and into the field. Nature Clim Change 7, 309–311 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3283
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