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cord-305903-qkoc68ky	Dietz, Thomas	Political events and public views on climate change	2020-07-09		.txt	text/plain	3221	160	50	In particular, the process by which we let our assessment of facts be influenced by values, prior beliefs, policy preferences, and by how we feel about a source of information is variously called biased assimilation, hot cognition, or motivated reasoning. Climate denial is a case in point-public views have been influenced by ongoing campaigns to discredit the scientific consensus and block action, exploiting our cognitive shortcuts (Givens et al. How then did Trump's election influence public views on climate change? They find that once Trump was in office and his views on climate, the environment, and government regulation were instantiated in policy actions, the effect was to some degree the opposite of what Hahnel et al. Both papers use the 2016 Presidential election as a natural experiment to examine the processes that can shift public views on climate change. Climate change views, energy policy support, and personal action in the Intermountain West: the anti-reflexivity effect	./cache/cord-305903-qkoc68ky.txt	./txt/cord-305903-qkoc68ky.txt