Repetition Enhances Climate Beliefs

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USC and Australian researchers explored the powerful effect of repetition on people's beliefs.

Even the strongest believers in climate science felt that the skeptical and pro-climate beliefs seemed more true when they encountered them a second time.

People are more likely to feel statements are true if those statements reflect their own beliefs.

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