Study examines the effects of climate misinformation on beliefs and confidence, indicating significant psychological impacts.
Climate misinformation does not only distort what people believe about climate change—it reshapes how confident they feel about those beliefs. By targeting the psychological cues people use to judge whether a claim is likely to be true, misinformation can weaken the link between knowledge and action even when factual understanding is relatively high.
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Helen Fischer (2026) studied this question.
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