{"id":355,"date":"2014-01-13T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=355"},"modified":"2014-01-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:38:04","slug":"how-warm-days-increase-belief-in-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-warm-days-increase-belief-in-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"How warm days increase belief in global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s freezing temperatures may have temporarily re-enforced climate specticism, while heat waves, on the other hand, increase belief in global warming. A team of climate scientists and psychologists found out that the explanation is the phenomenon of attribute substitution, whereby people prefer to use less relevant but more easily available information (such as today\u2019s temperature) over less-accessible but more thorough evidence.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2093.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a><\/span> published in <i>Nature Climate Change<\/i>\u00a0on <strong>January 12, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/psychology\/student-bios\/ZavalL\/student.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Zaval<\/a>, d\u00e9partement de psychologie, Universit\u00e9 Columbia, \u00c9tats-Unis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s freezing temperatures may have temporarily re-enforced climate specticism, while heat waves, on the other hand, increase belief in global warming. A team of climate scientists and psychologists found out that the explanation is the phenomenon of attribute substitution, whereby people prefer to use less relevant but more easily available information (such as today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}