Why disabled professionals should care about climate change

I recently listened to a story on National Public Radio about how people’s beliefs about climate change are strongly impacted by their world view. As I listed to the story I thought about how the findings of the Cultural Cognition Project relate to the challenges disabled professionals find in fully utilizing their skills and experience in the workplace.

An excerpt from the story:

“Basically the reason that people react in a close-minded way to information is that the implications of it threaten their values,” says Dan Kahan, a law professor at Yale University and a member of The Cultural Cognition Project.

Kahan says people test new information against their preexisting view of how the world should work.

“If the implication, the outcome, can affirm your values, you think about it in a much more open-minded way,” he says.

And if the information doesn’t, you tend to reject it.

See the story:

http://m.npr.org/news/front/124008307

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Dan Lococo
http://www.mainstreamingonmainstreet.com/