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Communicating the scientific consensus on climate change: A preregistered test of the gateway belief model with a one-week time delay

open access: yes, 2023
While the scientific community almost unanimously agrees on the reality of anthropogenic climate change, public attitudes and beliefs lag behind. One intervention proposed to close this gap is informing the public of the high level of consensus among climate scientists.
Jennifer van Beynen, Matt N Williams
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Communicating the consensus on climate change to college biology majors: The importance of preaching to the choir

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
College and university biology majors who are not climate change deniers may yet be unaware of the degree of scientific consensus on climate change and unprepared to communicate about climate science to others.
Jeremy D. Sloane, Jason R. Wiles
doaj   +1 more source

Female sex workers perspectives and concerns regarding HIV self-testing: an exploratory study in Tanzania

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background HIV testing is a gateway to HIV care and treatment for people diagnosed with HIV and can link those with negative results to HIV preventive services.
Soori Nnko   +7 more
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Testing the gateway belief model with climate change "skeptics"

open access: yes, 2021
The gateway belief model suggests that informing the public about the scientific consensus on an issue such as anthropogenic climate change can impact beliefs about that issue, and ultimately influence support for public action (van der Linden et al ...
Matt Williams
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Testing the gateway belief model with a one-week time delay

open access: yes, 2022
According to the gateway belief model, people’s beliefs about an issue can be affected by communicating the scientific consensus on the issue (van der Linden et al., 2019).
Jennifer van Beynen
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A conditional perspective of belief revision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Belief Revision is a subarea of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) that investigates how to rationally revise an intelligent agent's beliefs in response to new information.
Sezgin, Meliha
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The gateway belief model — replication and extension in Germany

open access: yes, 2023
The gateway belief model — replication and extension in ...
Anke Wonneberger   +3 more
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The importance of assessing and communicating scientific consensus

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2016
The spread of influential misinformation, such as conspiracy theories about the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program (SLAP), is contributing to the politicization of science.
Edward W Maibach   +1 more
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Communicating highly divergent levels of scientific and social consensus: its effects on people’s scientific beliefs

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2019
This study examined the impact of presenting scientific and social consensus information together on people’s scientific beliefs when the two types of consensus information contradict each other.
Keiichi Kobayashi
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Correlation between knowledge of HIV, attitudes and perceptions of HIV and a willingness to test for HIV at a regional hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2012
Background: With millions of South Africans infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and less than 10% of the population aware of their HIV status, HIV counselling and testing (HCT) is the first step in any attempt to reduce the number of new ...
Emeka E. Orisakwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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