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Someone Else’s Risk: Meta-analytical Evidence of a Self-Other Discrepancy in Climate Change-related Risk Perceptions

2025-02-27

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Climate change poses severe risks. In adapting to and mitigating these risks, unbiased risk assessments are essential. Yet, individuals systematically rate their personal risks as lower than those of others, believing that <italic>they</italic> are at lower risk than most (i.e., a self-other discrepancy). In a pre-registered multi-level meta-analysis, we estimate the extent and boun...

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Literature Corpus work: 1a8eddf4-5d72-5c97-99a8-a18b194b4e8d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5684495/v1

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