Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet)

By Elke U. Weber. 2006

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding the normalisation of recycling behaviour and its implications for other pro-environmental behaviours: A review of social norms and recycling (2013, background): “Also known as the ‘single action bias’ (Weber, 2006) it describes the tendency that individuals have that once they engage in a single action in response to uncertain, worrying or risky situations they become much less likely to take additional steps to deal with that issue.”
Does reduced psychological distance increase climate engagement? On the limits of localizing climate change (2018, background): “…nations that contribute disproportionately to climate change but are less vulnerable to its impacts, climate change is perceived as distant along all four of these dimensions (e.g., Gilbert, 2006; Weber, 2006; van der Linden, n Library Building, Ithaca, NY Maibach, & Leiserowitz, 2015).”
Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture (2012, background): “For example, providing information about a particular issue does increase attention toward that issue, but the intervention can have unintended consequences such as reducing attention about other important issues (Weber 1997) or increasing focus on only a single corrective action to the exclusion of”
Perceptions and responses to climate policy risks among California farmers (2013, background): “This lack of experience with major climate change impacts can cause people to see climate change as a lowprobability event with few risks (Weber, 2006).”
Measuring cultural values and beliefs about environment to identify their role in climate change responses (2014, background): “Consequently, societal risk perceptions have downplayed the scale and significance of the threat from climate change to justify inaction (Leiserowitz, 2006; Weber, 2006).”
Framing behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism consumption: beyond neoliberalism, “nudging” and “green growth”? (2013, background): “and sustainable mobility have a relatively low salience in people’s day-to-day activities, choices and actions (Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, 2006; Weber, 2006; Whitmarsh, 2009; Whitmarsh et al., 2011).”
Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change (2018, background): “The best scientific information predicts a future fundamentally different from the past, but even those who are aware of the science have difficulty prioritising actions precisely because of the unfamiliarity of that future (Weber 2006).”
Empirically Informed Regulation (2011, neutral): “Weber, Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming Does Not Scare Us (Yet), 77 Climatic Change 103, 107–08 (2006). 49 See Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and Sarah Lichtenstein,”
Identifying the most important predictors of support for climate policy in the United States (2020, background): “Communicators might, for instance, use vivid simulations of likely consequences of climate change (Weber, 2006) or vivid imagery (Goldberg et al., 2019b) to amplify worry and negative affect and then follow up with a message that induces hope via information, images, or stories about climate…”
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change (2020, background): “While it is self-evident that the physical science-based nature and scope of climate change is intrinsically difficult to understand (Weber, 2006; Weber & Stern, 2011), and indeed a worrying and ongoing environmental stressor (Evans, 2019; Reser & Swim, 2011), the aspects of climate change which…”
Decisions Under Uncertainty: Psychological, Economic, and Neuroeconomic Explanations of Risk Preference (2009, background): “…probability of occurrence in decisions from description as modeled by PT's probability weighting function ( Tversky and Kahneman, 1992 ), they tend to be underweighted in decisions from experience , unless they have recently occurred, in which case they are hugely overweighted ( Weber, 2006 ).”