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Elke Weber became a research psychologist with cross-training in business so that she could investigate how individuals approach financial risks. But a chance opportunity at her first faculty job, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the late 1980s, threw her together with agricultural economists trying to understand if or how local farmers thought about climate change.The surveys they conducted led to an insight that set Weber on an unforeseen path.Some farmers said they preferred a government policy to deal with change. Others said theyd alter their production techniques to accommodate new conditions, and a third group saw ways to adapt financially. None considered that climate change might call for sustained, multiple response stanley polska s. In fact, identifying a risk-reduct stanley cup ion technique they liked seemed to eclipse their awareness of other options.Weber later called this effect the single action bias. Faced with any new threat, people are motivated to do whatever they can to make anxious feelings disappear 鈥?even if the response is just the first thing they thought of or not particularly effective. One of the implications of this bias is that scaring people about climate change can lead to one-time, inadequate responses. Approaches that emphasize positive changes and pride may lead to more productive results stanley cup usa .That insight relates to the central puzzle of Webers research: Why have many years of compelling climate threats failed to move societies to protect themselves Ucli Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is in Ukraine to meet Zelenskyy as U.S. aid hangs in the balance
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