The Experience of Consensus: Video as an Effective Medium to Communicate Scientific Agreement on Climate Change

By Matthew H. Goldberg, S. van der Linden, Matthew T. Ballew, S. Rosenthal, Abel Gustafson, Anthony Leiserowitz. Science communication, 2019

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Research on the gateway belief model indicates that communicating the scientific consensus on global warming acts as a “gateway” to other beliefs and support for action. We test whether a video conveying the scientific consensus on global warming is more effective than a text transcript with the same information. Results show that the video was significantly more effective than the transcript in increasing people’s perception of scientific agreement. Structural equation models indicate indirect increases in the beliefs that global warming is happening and is human-caused, and in worry about global warming, which in turn predict increased global warming issue priority.

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

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

  1. Matthew T. Ballew
  2. S. Rosenthal
  3. Matthew H. Goldberg
  4. Abel Gustafson
  5. Caitlin N. Benedict
  6. Jacob B. Rode
  7. Ramona L Martinez
  8. Daniel B. Brosnahan

In Sociology and Political Science

  1. Matthew T. Ballew
  2. S. Rosenthal
  3. Matthew H. Goldberg
  4. Abel Gustafson
  5. Caitlin N. Benedict
  6. Jacob B. Rode
  7. Ramona L Martinez
  8. Daniel B. Brosnahan

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