Public understanding of climate change in the United States.

By Elke U. Weber, P. Stern. American Psychologist, 2011

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

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The psychological impacts of global climate change. (2011, neutral): “However, for many, the psychological effects of climate change are likely to be gradual, cumulative, and/or experienced only through media and social communication (see Weber & Stern, 2011, this issue, and Reser & Swim, 2011, this issue).”
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change (2020, background): “While the cases for both the power and the limitations of personal experience in understanding climate change can be persuasively made (e.g., Weber & Stern, 2011), an individual’s sense-making and environmental risk perceptions in the case of personally encountering an anomalous environmental…”
Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession? § (2012, background): “When media pay more attention to scientific conflicts than to consensus, the public’s view of the objectivity and competence of scientific experts will be more negative than informed scientific opinion (Weber and Stern, 2011).”
Public understanding of, and attitudes to, climate change: UK and international perspectives and policy (2012, background): “…it has been argued that it is particularly difficult to translate it into the language of popular discourse or to provide direct ‘mental models’ to help people conceptualize climate change and relate it to their daily activities (Ungar, 2000; Bostrom and Lashof, 2007; Weber and Stern, 2011).”
Personal experience with climate change predicts intentions to act (2015, background): “The public’s perception of climate science is quite inaccurate (Weber and Stern, 2011).”
The effects of extreme drought on climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and adaptation attitudes (2016, background): “Feeling at risk from climate change may lead to an increased intention to perform adaptive behaviors (O’Connor et al. 1999, 2005; Syal et al. 2011; Weber and Stern 2011).”
Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation (2013, positive): “…has become a mainstream phenomenon in the U.S. and to a lesser extent in other major industrialized countries (McCright and Dunlap, 2011a; Poortinga et al., 2011; Leiserowitz et al., 2011; Washington and Cook, 2011; Weber and Stern, 2011; Schmidt, 2010; Hamilton, 2010; Hoggan and Littlemore, 2009).”
Farmers’ perception of climate change in mediterranean Chile (2015, neutral): “, the recent occurrence of a rainy winter or a dry summer or daily temperature changes (see Hansen et al. 2004; Marx et al. 2007; Weber and Stern 2011; and Li et al. 2011).”
Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments (2016, neutral): “Politicization becomes particularly concerning when citizens’ beliefs, attitudes, and preferences diverge systematically from science’s best available logic and evidence (Weber & Stern 2011).”