h do you agree with the idea that human activity causes global changes in climate (completely agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, and completely disagree)?” In study 2, additionally, we also asked participants: “How significant is the risk climate change poses on humanity 4 (very significant, somewhat significant, somewhat insignificant, and very insignificant)?” In study 2, we calculated the average of these two measures for every participant to create a “prior belief” score which we will later apply in the analysis.
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