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Playing 'serious games,' adults learn to solve thorny real-world problems

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imageIt takes more than protest: demonstrators at a 2012 climate change conference in Doha, Qatar.Omar Chatriwala/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

It is never easy for interest groups with conflicting views to resolve public policy disagreements involving complex scientific issues. To successfully formulate complex treaties, such as the recent Paris Climate Change...

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