Thinking About Global Warming |
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| Authors: | Jonathan Baron |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 19104-6241, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Attitudes toward global warming are influenced by various heuristics, which may distort policy away from what is optimal for the well-being of people. These possible distortions, or biases, include: a focus on harms that we cause, as opposed to those that we can remedy more easily; a feeling that those who cause a problem should fix it; a desire to undo a problem rather than compensate for its presence; parochial concern with one’s own group (nation); and neglect of risks that are not available. Although most of these biases tend to make us attend relatively too much to global warming, other biases, such as wishful thinking, cause us to attend too little. I discuss these possible effects and illustrate some of them with an experiment conducted on the World Wide Web. |
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