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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
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