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To fight climate change, we need to take people’s cognitive biases into account.
Optimism and pessimism can lead to poor decision making.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow in Education, Edge Hill University
