The role of economic perceptions in influencing views on climate change: an experimental analysis with British respondents

作者: John Kenny

DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2017.1414026

关键词: PsychologyRespondentPessimismPerceptionSalience (language)Pooled dataSocial psychologyClimate changeEcological economicsPriming (psychology)

摘要: ABSTRACTExisting analysis suggests that individuals may reduce their concern for and belief in climate change as a result of macro-economic difficulties. Such conclusions are predominantly based on repeated cross-sectional pooled data making it difficult to separate out the effects economic conditions from other explanatory factors. Approaching this question through experimentally priming feel certain way about economy has also proven due perceptions being alter survey setting [Kachi, Bernauer, & Gampfer, 2015. Climate policy hard times: Are pessimists right? Ecological Economics, 114, 227–241]. This article thus investigates related effect salience views using an online question-order experiment, whereby denotes prominence issue mind respondent. Respondents were randomly assigned receiving prompting before o...

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