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Quantum-like models can be fruitfully used to model attitude change in a social context. Next steps require data, and higher dimensional models. Here, we discuss an exploratory study that demonstrates an order effect when three question sets about Climate Beliefs, Political Affiliation and Attitudes Towards Science are presented in different orders within a larger study of \(n=533\) subjects. A quantum-like model seems possible, and we propose a new experiment which could be used to test between three possible models for this scenario.
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We thank Peter Bruza for his many contributions to early discussions about this work, and the possible use of the QQ model.
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Kitto, K., Sonnenburg, L., Boschetti, F., Walker, I. (2015). Modelling Attitudes to Climate Change — An Order Effect and a Test Between Alternatives. In: Atmanspacher, H., Bergomi, C., Filk, T., Kitto, K. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15931-7_10
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