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048002; David Herring, “Isn’t There a Lot of Disagreement among Climate Scientists about Global Warming?,” ClimateWatch Magazine, February 3, 2020, www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/isnt-there-lot-disagreement-among-climate-scientists-about-global-warming.

a range of views on the actual effects: Carolyn Gramling, “Climate Models Agree Things Will Get Bad. Capturing Just How Bad Is Tricky,” ScienceNews, January 7, 2020, www.sciencenews.org/article/why-climate-change-models-disagree-earth-worst-case-scenarios.

people are more motivated to act: Paul G. Bain et al., “Co-Benefits of Addressing Climate Change Can Motivate Action around the World,” Nature Climate Change 6 (2016): 154–57.

preserving the purity of nature: Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, “The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes,” Psychological Science 24 (2013): 56–62.

protecting the planet as an act of patriotism: Christopher Wolsko, Hector Ariceaga, and Jesse Seiden, “Red, White, and Blue Enough to Be Green: Effects of Moral Framing on Climate Change Attitudes and Conservation Behaviors,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 65 (2016): 7–19.

people will ignore or even deny: Troy H. Campbell and Aaron C. Kay, “Solution Aversion: On the Relation between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 107 (2014): 809–24.

examples of headlines: Mary Annaise Heglar, “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I Don’t Care If You Recycle,” Vox, May 28, 2019, www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal; Bob Berwyn, “Can Planting a Trillion Trees Stop Climate Change? Scientists Say It’s a Lot More Complicated,” Inside Climate News, May 27, 2020, insideclimatenews.org/news/26052020/trillion-trees-climate-change?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrb6n1qHF6gIVFInICh2kggWNEAAYAiAAEgI-sPD_BwE.

when news reports about science included caveats: Lewis Bott et al., “Caveats in Science-Based News Stories Communicate Caution without Lowering Interest,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 25 (2019): 517–42.

diversity of background and thought: See, for example, Ute Hülsheger, Neil R. Anderson, and Jesus F. Salgado, “Team-Level Predictors of Innovation at Work: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis Spanning Three Decades of Research,” Journal of Applied Psychology 94 (2009): 1128–45; Cristian L. Dezsö and David Gaddis Ross, “Does Female Representation in Top Management Improve Firm Performance? A Panel Data Investigation,” Strategic Management Journal 33 (2012): 1072–89; Samuel R. Sommers, “On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90 (2006): 597–612; Denise Lewin Loyd et al., “Social Category Diversity Promotes Premeeting Elaboration: The Role of Relationship Focus,” Organization Science 24 (2013): 757–72.

potential is realized in some situations: Elizabeth Mannix and Margaret A. Neale, “What Differences Make a Difference? The Promise and Reality of Diverse Teams in Organizations,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 6 (2005): 31–55.

(and more accurate): “Diversity is good, but it isn’t easy”: Lisa Leslie, “What Makes a Workplace Diversity Program Successful?,” Center for Positive Organizations, January 22, 2020, positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/news/what-makes-a-workplace-diversity-program-successful.

“The Mixed Effects”: Edward H. Chang et al., “The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training,” PNAS 116 (2019): 7778–83.

“maintain a consistent narrative”: Julian Matthews, “A Cognitive Scientist Explains Why Humans Are So Susceptible to Fake News and Misinformation,” NiemanLab, April 17, 2019, www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/a-cognitive-scientist-explains-why-humans-are-so-susceptible-to-fake-news-and-misinformation.

divide around emotional intelligence: Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 1995) and “What Makes a Leader?,” Harvard Business Review, January 2004; Jordan B. Peterson, “There Is No Such Thing as EQ,” Quora, August 22, 2019, www.quora.com/What-is-more-beneficial-in-all-aspects-of-life-a-high-EQ-or-IQ-This-question-is-based-on-the-assumption-that-only-your-EQ-or-IQ-is-high-with-the-other-being-average-or-below-this-average.

the comprehensive meta-analyses: Dana L. Joseph and Daniel A. Newman, “Emotional Intelligence: An Integrative Meta-analysis and Cascading Model,” Journal of Applied Psychology 95 (2010): 54–78; Dana L. Joseph et al., “Why Does Self-Reported EI Predict Job Performance? A Meta-analytic Investigation of Mixed EI,” Journal of Applied Psychology 100 (2015): 298–342.

when people embrace paradoxes: Ella Miron-Spektor, Francesca Gino, and Linda Argote, “Paradoxical Frames and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 116 (2011): 229–40; Dustin J. Sleesman, “Pushing Through the Tension While Stuck in the Mud: Paradox Mindset and Escalation of Commitment,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 155 (2019): 83–96.

beneficial in jobs that involve dealing with emotions: Joseph and Newman, “Emotional Intelligence.”

a thousand comments poured in: Adam Grant, “Emotional Intelligence Is Overrated,” LinkedIn, September 30, 2014, www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140930125543-69244073-emotional-intelligence-is-overrated.

Some teachers are determined: Olga Khazan, “The Myth of ‘Learning Styles,’” The Atlantic, April 11, 2018, www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687.

they don’t actually learn better that way: Harold Pashler et al., “Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 9 (2008): 105–19.

meditation isn’t the only way: Adam Grant, “Can We End the Meditation Madness?,” New York Times, October 9, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/opinion/can-we-end-the-meditation-madness.html.

the Myers-Briggs personality tool: Adam Grant, “MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too,” Medium, November 17, 2015, medium.com/@AdamMGrant/mbti-if-you-want-me-back-you-need-to-change-too-c7f1a7b6970; Adam Grant, “Say Goodbye to MBTI, the Fad That Won’t Die,” LinkedIn, September 17, 2013, www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130917155206-69244073-say-goodbye-to-mbti-the-fad-that-won-t-die.

being more authentic: Adam Grant, “The Fine Line between Helpful and Harmful Authenticity,” New York Times, April 10, 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/smarter-living/the-fine-line-between-helpful-and-harmful-authenticity.html; Adam Grant, “Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice,” New York Times, June 4, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/opinion/sunday/unless-youre-oprah-be-yourself-is-terrible-advice.html.

the veil of ignorance: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1971).

randomly assigning people to reflect: Rhia Catapano, Zakary L. Tormala, and Derek D. Rucker, “Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why ‘Putting Yourself in Their Shoes’ Reduces Openness to Attitude Change,” Psychological Science 30 (2019): 424–35.

imagining other people’s perspectives: Tal Eyal, Mary Steffel, and Nicholas Epley, “Perspective Mistaking: Accurately Understanding the Mind of Another Requires Getting Perspective, Not Taking Perspective,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114 (2018): 547–71.

Polls show that Democrats: Yascha Mounk, “Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—and Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans,” The Atlantic, June 23, 2019, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/republicans-and-democrats-dont-understand-each-other/592324.

even if we disagree strongly: Julian J. Zlatev, “I May Not Agree with You, but I Trust You: Caring about Social Issues Signals Integrity,” Psychological Science 30 (2019): 880–92.

“I have a lot of respect”: Corinne Bendersky, “Resolving Ideological Conflicts by Affirming Opponents’ Status: The Tea Party, Obamacare and the 2013 Government Shutdown,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 53 (2014): 163–68.

People get trapped in emotional simplicity: Patti Williams and Jennifer L. Aaker, “Can Mixed Emotions Peacefully Coexist?,” Journal of Consumer Research 28 (2002): 636–49.

Japanese gives us koi no yokan: Beca Grimm, “11 Feelings There Are No Words for in English,” Bustle, July 15, 2015, www.bustle.com/articles/97413-11-feelings-there-are-no-words-for-in-english-for-all-you-emotional-word-nerds-out.

The Inuit have iktsuarpok: Bill Demain et al., “51 Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent,” Mental Floss, December 14, 2015, www.mentalfloss.com/article/50698/38-wonderful-foreign-words-we-could-use-english.

kummerspeck, the extra weight: Kate Bratskeir, “‘Kummerspeck,’ or Grief Bacon, Is the German