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Job and the Just World Hypothesis

Posted on December 15, 2020 by climatechangefork

I asked my wife, a psychologist and college administrator, to help explain climate change denial. She suggested the “just world hypothesis.” I included her proposal in the last chapter of my book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of … Continue reading →

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Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

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Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Posted on February 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I ended my book on climate change (Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now – Momentum Press, 2011) with the chapter: “The Future, the Past and the Just World Hypothesis.” My wife, an experimental psychologist and now the … Continue reading →

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