Study says 80 to 90% of Americans underestimate the prevalence of support for climate change mitigation policies. "It's a big mismatch between the amount of private support that people have and what they think people around them believe," he said. He thinks media, social media is distorting beliefs about what their fellow Americans believe.
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.