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source The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks Dan Kahan https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1547 2012-05-27 cultural-dynamics paper processed clay 2026-03-08
identity-protective cognition causes people to reject evidence that threatens their group identity even when they have the cognitive capacity to evaluate it correctly
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The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks

Published in Nature Climate Change. Demonstrates that higher scientific literacy and numeracy predict greater polarization on culturally contested issues, not less. Extended by Kahan 2017 (Advances in Political Psychology) and Kahan et al. 2013 (Journal of Risk Research) with the gun-control statistics experiment.