Recently Experienced Local Weather Conditions Often Have a Greater Impact

question 45

Multiple Choice

Recently experienced local weather conditions often have a greater impact on people's perceived threat of global climate warming than less memorable scientific data regarding long-term planetary weather trends.This best illustrates the impact of

• A) confirmation bias.
• B) the framing effect.
• C) the availability heuristic.
• D) belief perseverance.

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