Boomerang Effects in Science Communication

By P. Sol Hart, Erik C. Nisbet. Communication Research, 2012

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover (2016, background): “On the other hand, Republicans are less likely to view PEB as central to their identity (Gromet et al., 2013; Hamilton & Saito, 2014; Hart & Nisbet, 2011), so performance of an initial behavior is not expected to activate consistency effects.”
Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects (2020, neutral): “…with other recent work which does not find a backfire effect (Guess & Coppock, 2018; T. Wood & Porter, 2019), in contrast to identity protection theories where backfire effects would be expected in the form of attitude polarisation (Hart & Nisbet, 2012; Kahan et al., 2011; Nyhan & Reifler, 2010).”
The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions (2019, background): “…In this study, we test the effects of graphical and textual presentations of temperature data on beliefs about climate change and global warming – another issue with high levels of partisan polarization (McCright and Dunlap 2011) and strong evidence of motivated reasoning (Hart and Nisbet 2012).”
Climate visuals: A mixed methods investigation of public perceptions of climate images in three countries (2016, background): “, Democrats) react more positively to stories about climate impacts affecting people living far off geographically or temporally (Hart and Nisbet, 2012).”
Exploring the role of incidental emotions in support for climate change policy (2015, methodology): “Modeled after the method used by Hart and Nisbet (2012), this fictional news article was created on the basis of facts reported by major news Web sites and did not contain any explicit political partisan cues.”
Psychological Reactance From Reading Basic Facts on Climate Change: The Role of Prior Views and Political Identification (2018, background): “As a result, this reactance could be the reason behind documented backfiring effects of climate change messages (see Cook & Lewandowsky, 2016; Hart & Nisbet, 2012; Zhou, 2016).”
Understanding Public Hurricane Evacuation Decisions and Responses to Forecast and Warning Messages (2016, background): “Amore effective approach may be to frame the information in ways that decrease message rejection among certain populations, for example, by presenting information in a way that affirms rather than threatens cultural values and narrative templates (e.g., Kahan et al. 2011; Hart and Nisbet 2012).”