While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change real and has detrimental consequences, a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions not worried by change. In an attempt to understand the basis skepticism, we look at role intolerance, culturally transmitted attitude effect with certain characteristics be respected. The theoretical link from...

Analyzing argumentation semantics with respect to the notion of skepticism is an important issue for developing general and wellfounded comparisons among existing approaches. In this paper, we show that the notion of skepticism plays also a significant role in order to better understand the behavior of a specific semantics in different situations. Building on an articulated classification of ar...

Psychological change is difficult to assess, in part because self-reported beliefs and attitudes may be biased or distorted. The present study probed belief change, in an educational context, by using the hindsight bias to counter another bias that generally plagues assessment of subjective change. Although research has indicated that skepticism courses reduce paranormal beliefs, those findings...