The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change as a Gateway Belief: Experimental Evidence

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Sander L. van der Linden ,

* E-mail: sander.vanderlinden@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Anthony A. Leiserowitz,

Affiliation Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Geoffrey D. Feinberg,

Affiliation Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Edward W. Maibach

Affiliation Center for Climate Change Communication, Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America
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The raw survey data for this paper are publicly available and can be accessed with the following doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3084760.

No competing interests declared.

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