Correct Me if I'm Wrong: Groups Outperform Individuals in the Climate Stabilization Task.

ABSTRACT: Avoiding dangerous climate change requires ambitious emissions reduction. Scientists agree on this, but policy-makers and citizens do not. This discrepancy can be partly attributed to faulty mental models, which cause individuals to misunderstand the carbon dioxide (CO2) system. For example, in the Climate Stabilization Task (hereafter, "CST") (Sterman and Booth-Sweeney, 2007), individuals systematically underestimate the emissions reduction required to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels, which may lead them to endorse ineffective "wait-and-see" climate policies. Thus far, interventions to correct faulty mental models in the CST have failed to produce robust improvements in decision-making. Here, in the first study to test a group-based intervention, we found that success rates on the CST ma

SUBMITTER: Xie B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6284004 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature