Seeing what can(not) be seen: Confirmation bias, employment dynamics and climate change

Psychologists among other behavioural scientists refer to the tendency of favouring, interpreting, and searching for information that supports one’s prior beliefs as confirmation bias. Given relevance topic field, we develop a small-scale agent-based model in discrete-time investigate how employment conditions affect attitudes towards climate policies under such cognitive Our narrative resembles so-called discrete-choice approach. It is assumed respective probability functions respond variations rate. Persistent endogenous fluctuations might emerge via super-critical Neimark-Sacker bifurcation. Furthermore, depending on strength agents’ response collective opinion, have coexistence periodic attractors representation path dependence. In terms policy implications, highlight adoption successful green-agenda depends ability policy-makers take advantage favourable labour market while appealing different framing strategies.