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Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview : NPR
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124008307&ft=1&f=1007&sc=YahooNews, posted 2010 by peter in cognition environment science toread
o social scientist and lawyer Don Braman, it's not surprising that two people can disagree so strongly over science. Braman is on the faculty at George Washington University and part of The Cultural Cognition Project, a group of scholars who study how cultural values shape public perceptions and policy beliefs.
"People tend to conform their factual beliefs to ones that are consistent with their cultural outlook, their world view," Braman says.