{"id":37856,"date":"2013-06-20T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/climate-change-pregnancy-and-tuning-out-bad-advice.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:41:39","slug":"climate-change-pregnancy-and-tuning-out-bad-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/climate-change-pregnancy-and-tuning-out-bad-advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change, Pregnancy, and Tuning Out Bad Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"
The psychology of why people do (or don't) pay attention to advice or warnings they are given is fascinating — and sometimes can have significant impact on actually risky or dangerous behavior. \u00a0It's easy to tune the message out when the messenger is shrill, or annoying, or challenging. \u00a0Sometimes such "sanity breaks" are useful, even necessary — but the annoyance of the messenger doesn't necessarily correlate with the truth (or importance) of the message, and you can go just as wrong ignoring things you should be worried about as you can worrying about things you shouldn't.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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Pregnant Pause<\/a>
\n A deluge of prenatal advice offers unexpected insights into climate denial\n <\/p>\n

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The psychology of why people do (or don't) pay attention to advice or warnings they are given is fascinating — and sometimes can have significant impact on actually risky or dangerous behavior. \u00a0It's easy to tune the message out when the messenger is shrill, or annoying, or challenging. \u00a0Sometimes such "sanity breaks" are useful, even … Continue reading “Climate Change, Pregnancy, and Tuning Out Bad Advice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/28\/bedfellows.html","url_meta":{"origin":37856,"position":0},"title":"Bedfellows","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Feb-03 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The messenger is not the message, and just because a bunch of bigots want to take a principled stand by your side doesn't necesarily mean that your position is wrong....","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/if_thine_actor.html","url_meta":{"origin":37856,"position":1},"title":"If thine actor offend thee …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Feb-06 12:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Can you separate the message from the messenger? 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