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Title: | Improving Americans' Modest Global Warming Knowledge in the Light of RTMD (Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny) Theory |
Authors: | Ranney, Michael Clark, Dav Reinholz, Daniel Cohen, Sarah |
Issue Date: | Jul-2012 |
Publisher: | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Citation: | Ranney, M., Clark, D., Reinholz, D., & Cohen, S. (2012). Improving Americans' Modest Global Warming Knowledge in the Light of RTMD (Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny) Theory. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 2, Short Papers, Symposia, and Abstracts (pp. 481-482). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. |
Abstract: | Study 1 (N=270) reveals U.S. knowledge about global warming's mechanism to be poor, but Study 2's experiment (N=149) shows that a brief, 400-word text yields both large knowledge gains and more climate change acceptance. The results cohere with RTMD theory. |
URI: | https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2012.2.481 https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/2336 |
Appears in Collections: | ICLS 2012 |
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