Modelling Attitudes to Climate Change - An Order Effect and a Test Between Alternatives

Quantum-like models can be fruitfully used to model attitude change in a social context. Next steps require data, and higher dimensional models. Here, we discuss an exploratory study that demonstrates an order effect when three question sets about Climate Beliefs, Political Affiliation and Attitudes Towards Science are presented in different orders within a larger study of \(n=533\) subjects. A quantum-like model seems possible, and we propose a new experiment which could be used to test between three possible models for this scenario.

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