Sentence examples for perception of consensus from inspiring English sources

Conservatives (with stronger support for free markets) show a much lower perception of consensus than liberals.

Second, even liberals have a low perception of consensus relative to the 97% consensus.

Additionally, as John Cook has discussed, research has shown that perception of consensus is linked to support for climate policy.

These differences also have correlations that might be partly explanatory: regarding an issue as objective correlates with strength of belief and perception of consensus on the issue (see Goodwin and Darley 2008 and 2010).

Studies in 2011 and 2013 found that perception of scientific consensus is a gateway belief that has a flow-on effect to a number of other beliefs and attitudes.

"The public perception of a scientific consensus on AGW [anthropogenic, ie man-made, global warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy," the study said.

A new study by social scientists at Princeton, Yale, and George Mason universities goes further yet to suggest that perception of the expert consensus is a "gateway belief" that opens people to the acceptance of other important concepts.

Crucially, as we note in our paper: Public perception of the scientific consensus has been found to be a gateway belief, affecting other climate beliefs and attitudes including policy support.

They valued rightly and wrongly and thereby themselves with regard to adopted professional norms, a perception of a collegial consensus.

We then conducted descriptive analysis within each WEIGHT category to present participants' perceptions, and the degree of consensus or divergence around various issues [ 25].

“Going forward, the general perception won't be one of consensus,” notes Cato Institute Senior Fellow Jerry Taylor, an expert on energy issues, “but one of increasing appreciation of disagreement on the issue.”.