Dan Kahan seeks prepublication comments of the folloing paper (abs below): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1981907#
This is the 3rd or 4th study I've seen (including my own) which found negative moral hazard. There have been no findings of positive moral hazard in any study of which I'm aware. Dan works on the Yale cultural cognition project http://www.culturalcognition.net/ Please note his email, cc and [email protected] for comments. Thanks A Abstract: We conducted a two-nation study (United States, n = 1500; England, n = 1500) to test a novel theory of science communication. The cultural cognition thesis posits that individuals make extensive reliance on cultural meanings in forming perceptions of risk. The logic of the cultural cognition thesis suggests the potential value of a distinctive two-channel science communication strategy that combines information content (“Channel 1”) with cultural meanings (“Channel 2”) selected to promote open-minded assessment of information across diverse communities. In the study, scientific information content on climate change was held constant while the cultural meaning of that information was experimentally manipulated. Consistent with the study hypotheses, we found that making citizens aware of the potential contribution of geoengineering as a supplement to restriction of CO2 emissions helps to offset cultural polarization over the validity of climate-change science. We also tested the hypothesis, derived from competing models of science communication, that exposure to information on geoengineering would provoke discounting of climate-change risks generally. Contrary to this hypothesis, we found that subjects exposed to information about geoengineering were slightly more concerned about climate change risks than those assigned to a control condition. Number of Pages in PDF File: 41 Keywords: climate change, geoengineering, cultural cognition, risk perception -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
