Judgmental Discounting and Environmental Risk Perception: Dimensional Similarities, Domain Differences, and Implications for Sustainability

By Alexander Gattig, L. Hendrickx. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Perceptions of time in relation to climate change (2014, unknown): “These findings are not quite in line with Gattig and Hendrickx’ 74 conceptual analysis, according to which distant problems (spatial or temporal) should be discounted more and thus perceived as less serious than close problems.”
• Environmental cognitions, land change, and social–ecological feedbacks: an overview (2013, background): “…or threats are often judged as much more serious and less discounted with time when attributed to human rather than natural causes, presumably because the former induces a sense of ethical violation and of responsibility (Brown, Peterson, Brodersen, Ford, and Bell, 2005; Gattig and Hendrickx 2007).”
• The dragons of inaction: psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation. (2011, background): “To take another example, bicycles burn virtually no greenhouse gases after they are manufactured, but they result in quite a few visits to emergency rooms.”
• Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change: An integrative review (2015, background): “…highlight that 1) although psychological distance has often been singled out as an important barrier to encouraging action on climate change (e.g., Gattig & Hendrickx, 2007; Lorenzoni & Pidgeon, 2006; Milfont, 2010; Rayner & Malone, 1997; Swim et al., 2009; Weber, 2006, 2010), relatively little…”
• Psychology's essential role in alleviating the impacts of climate change. (2008, background): “Gattig and Hendrickx (2007) bring perspectives from economics and behavioural decision theory into the mix. Discounting, the tendency to reduce the importance of an outcome with greater “distance” (temporally, socially, geographically, and probabilistically), is seen to be an important component of ”