Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values

By Anthony Leiserowitz. 2006

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world (2020, methodology): “Consistent with the literature in the domain of environmental risk (e.g. see Leiserowitz 2006; van der Linden 2015; Xie et al. 2019), experiential and socio-cultural factors explained most of the variance in our risk perception models across all countries in comparison to cognition (knowledge) and…”
Applying the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model to Examine Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policy (2014, background): “Whereas negative affect can precede support for climate change policy (Leiserowitz, 2006) and favorable attitudes toward energy conservation (Meijnders et al., 2001), unfavorable feelings may also lead individuals to experience increased fatalism or disengagement from the issue of climate change…”
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization (2019, background): “As such, previous research finds that those with fatalistic attitudes are less supportive of climate change policy (Leiserowitz, 2006).”
“Fracking” Controversy and Communication: Using National Survey Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing (2014, positive): “To measure affective imagery, respondents were asked the first thing that comes to mind when they think of “fracking” (see also Leiserowitz, 2005, 2006; Lorenzoni et al., 2006).”
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality (2020, background): “A multitude of new conspiracy theories emerged across Western societies in the 21 century relating to: 9/11 (Stempel, Hargrove, & Stempel, 2007; Swami, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Furnham, 2010), climate change (Douglas & Sutton, 2015; Leiserowitz, 2006), the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Princess Diana (W”
Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States (2008, background): “(34) Leiserowitz(53,54) argues strongly for the role of attitudes (affect) and values in determining risk perceptions and Krosnick et al.”
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement (2013, methodology): “These images were subject to thematic coding (drawing from previous studies, see Leiserowitz, 2006; Smith and Joffe, 2009) but also from themes emerging from the data.”
Identifying the most important predictors of support for climate policy in the United States (2020, methodology): “…identified several key predictors of climate policy support, including but not limited to: affect, discrete emotions, political party, and social norms (e.g., Leiserowitz, 2006; Roser-Renouf et al., 2014; Smith & Leiserowitz, 2014; Thaker et al., 2018; Ballew et al., 2019; Goldberg et al., 2020).”
From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover (2016, methodology): “…much Disappointed with myself Annoyed with myself Angry with myself Dissatisfied with myself Disgusted with myself Global warming worry (adapted from Leiserowitz, 2006) How personally worried: Global Warming 1 = very worried; 5 = not at all worried Do you think the effects of global warming will…”
Free Association in Psychology and the Grid Elaboration Method (2014, background): “A prominent proponent of this perspective is Leiserowitz, who has been particularly interested in the changing conceptions of climate change risk in public awareness (Leiserowitz, 2005, 2006; Lorenzoni, Leiserowitz, Doria, Poortinga, & Pidgeon, 2006; Smith & Leiserowitz, 2012).”