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Decision scientists have identified remedies for various cognitive biases that distort climate-change risk perceptions. Researchers must now use the same empirical methods to identify strategies for reproducing — in the tumult of the real world — results forged in the tranquillity of their labs.

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  1. Dan M. Kahan is at Yale Law School, PO Box 208215, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA,

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  2. Katherine Carpenter is at the Cultural Cognition Project, Yale Law School, PO Box 208215, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA,

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Kahan, D., Carpenter, K. Out of the lab and into the field. Nature Clim Change 7, 309–311 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3283

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