The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model

By S. van der Linden. 2015

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior: A two nation study (2020, methodology): “Finally, Van der Linden (2015) fourth broad category of predictors comprises a set of sociodemographic variables.”
Risk Perceptions and Psychological Effects During the Italian COVID-19 Emergency (2020, background): “…recommended the inclusion of cognitive, emotional and social dimensions which directly or indirectly characterize and influence people’s risk perception (Slovic, 1987, 1999; Slovic et al., 2000; Brug et al., 2004; Renn, 2006; Oh et al., 2015, 2020; van der Linden, 2015, 2017; Flesia et al., 2020).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, methodology): “In one study, van der Linden (2015A) provides empirical support for the two-dimensional factor structure of risk perception and further shows that each dimension may have different antecedents.”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, background): “…to take action or hold beliefs that people should take action to address climate change, predict seeing climate change as a greater threat (van der Linden, 2015) and predict the extent to which people are willing to take personal and societal action to address global warming (Xie et al., 2019).”
Psychological Barriers to Energy Conservation Behavior: The Role of Worldviews and Climate Change Risk Perception (2018, background): “Climate change knowledge correlates with belief in climate change (Jones, 2011; van der Linden, 2015).”
Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act (2019, methodology): “Descriptive norms, prescriptive norms, and biospheric values significantly predicted risk perception in the final model (van der Linden, 2015).”
Identifying the most important predictors of support for climate policy in the United States (2020, background): “Risk perceptions are guided by both affective and analytical psychological systems (Slovic et al., 2004; Weber, 2006), which are influenced by a variety of factors, including socio-demographics, knowledge, experience, and social norms (van der Linden, 2015).”
The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States (2021, background): “The fields of social and environmental psychology have made significant contributions to understanding how people think, feel, and act on climate change (Fielding et al., 2014; van der Linden, 2015).”
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…”
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change (2020, neutral): “…2019; Konisky et al., 2016; Larcom, She, & van Gevelt, 2019; Lujala et al., 2015; Lujala & Lein, 2020; Marlon et al., 2018; Ogunbode, Demski, et al., 2019; Reser, Bradley, & Ellul, 2012; Reser et al., 2012a; Tanner & Arvai, 2018; van der Linden, 2015, 2017; Whitmarsh, 2009; Zaval et al., 2014).”