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SUMMARY:Modelling Misperception of Public Support for Climate Policy: a Ne
 tworks Approach - Dr Ekaterina Landgren\, Univ of Colorado at Boulder
DTSTART:20231004T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Antoinette Nestor
DESCRIPTION:Mitigating the consequences of climate change and reducing pol
 itical polarization are two of the biggest problems facing society today. 
 These problems are intertwined\, since meeting international climate-mitig
 ation targets requires implementing policies that accelerate the rate of d
 ecarbonization\, and these policies can succeed only with widespread bipar
 tisan support. Since the late 1980s\, climate change has become a strongly
  polarizing issue in the United States. However\, overall support for clim
 ate policy is high\, with 66-80% of Americans supporting climate policies.
  Curiously\, 80-90% of Americans underestimate public support for these po
 licies\, estimating the prevalence of support to be as low as 37-43%. The 
 implications of such widespread misperception range from individual behavi
 ors to legislative outcomes. Supporters of climate policy are more likely 
 to self-silence if they believe their peers do not support it\, and politi
 cians are less likely to promote policies they believe to be unpopular. He
 re we present an agent-based social-network model of public perception of 
 support for climate policy grounded in previous empirical studies and opin
 ion surveys. We address the question of opinion misperception through an e
 xploration of network structures and mechanisms of assessment of others’
  beliefs.
LOCATION:JDB Lecture Theatre\, Dept of Engineering 
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