American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous?

By Anthony Leiserowitz. Risk Analysis, 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change (2018, background): “…or person – is of growing importance to climate change research, in part because in many studies, people report feeling distant from the impacts of climate change, and perceive that they will be largely unaffected (Howe et al., 2015; Leiserowitz, 2005; Spence et al., 2012; Steentjes et al., 2017).”
Mindfulness and Sustainable Behavior: Pondering Attention and Awareness as Means for Increasing Green Behavior (2009, neutral): “Leiserowitz (2005) described a similar, predictable subpopulation who perceived climate change as a very low or nonexistent danger.”
Do concerns about climate change lead to distress (2010, background): “A significant amount of research has, however, been conducted relating to public perceptions and responses to climate change (Leiserowitz, 2005; Lorenzoni et al. 2007; O’Connor et al., 2002; Pidgeon et al., 2006; Whitmarsh, 2007).”
Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges A Report by the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change Members (2009, background): “An individual’s perceptions of climate change impacts can be moderated by social norms (Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990; Leiserowitz, 2005) and by their environmental identity (Clayton & Opotow, 2003).”
Free Association in Psychology and the Grid Elaboration Method (2014, methodology): “For example, the affective ratings of associations in AIA (Leiserowitz, 2005) may prove insufficient in elucidating the meanings that underpin the association; Farrimond and Joffe (2006) found that although all smokers tended to produce negatively valenced associations to smoking, whether or not…”
Measuring cultural values and beliefs about environment to identify their role in climate change responses (2014, background): “This is evidenced by the radically different ‘interpretive communities’ who contest the meaning of dangerous climate change, taking either alarmist or contrarian positions (Leiserowitz, 2005).”
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies (2014, background): “30 Leiserowitz (2005) found a great deal of heterogeneity linked to cultural effects with respect to the 31 perception of climate change in the United States.”
The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model (2015, background): “…change can be viewed empirically as a two-dimensional construct, and more importantly, whether societal and personal risk perceptions have different psychological antecedents - which could have important implications for risk communication (Bord et al., 2000; Leiserowitz, 2005; Sj€oberg, 2012).”
“Fracking” Controversy and Communication: Using National Survey Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing (2014, neutral): “To measure affective imagery, respondents were asked the first thing that comes to mind when they think of “fracking” (see also Leiserowitz, 2005, 2006; Lorenzoni et al., 2006).”
Bringing appraisal theory to environmental risk perception: a review of conceptual approaches of the past 40 years and suggestions for future research (2012, methodology): “The affective imagery was used to examine various topics associated with risks: global warming and climate change (e.g. Leiserowitz 2005; Lorenzoni et al. 2006; Poortinga, Pidgeon, and Lorenzoni 2006), or nuclear power and nuclear waste repositories (Peters and Slovic 1996; Slovic, Flynn, and…”