Engaging Diverse Audiences with Climate Change: Message Strategies for Global Warming’s Six Americas
This chapter will appear in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Second Edition,…
Read moreAn eye tracking approach to understanding misinformation and correction strategies on social media: The mediating role of attention and credibility to reduce HPV vaccine misperceptions
This study uses an unobtrusive eye tracking approach to examine understudied psychological mechanisms—message attention and…
Read moreHow Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence
Read moreFossil fuels are harming our brains: Identifying key messages about the health effects of air pollution from fossil fuels
A large body of evidence suggests that a transition away from fossil fuels toward a…
Read moreUnderstanding and countering misinformation about climate change
ABSTRACT While there is overwhelming scientific agreement on climate change, the public has become polarized…
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Turning Climate Misinformation into an Educational Opportunity: Chapter 2
Our Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunities (TMEO) Teacher Ambassadors have developed and field tested five misconceptions-based climate…
Read moreIncreasing Public Awareness and Facilitating Behavior Change: Two Guiding Heuristics
If there is a single aspiration that unifies the professionals who work on the challenges…
Read moreCommunicating Sea Level Rise
Three quarters of the world’s large cities are located on coasts. As climate change causes…
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How to Inoculate the Public Against Misinformation About Climate Change
In this study, we tested whether preemptive “inoculation messages” can protect the beneficial effects of…
Read moreThe Consumer as Climate Activist
Consumption of green products is growing rapidly in the United States. We assessed the extent…
Read moreTV Meteorologists as Local Climate Change Educators
Five years ago – in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC) – we…
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The Importance of Assessing and Communicating Scientific Consensus
The spread of influential misinformation, such as conspiracy theories about the existence of a secret,…
Read moreDeveloping effective communication materials on the health effects of climate change for vulnerable groups: a mixed methods study
Individuals with chronic health conditions or low socioeconomic status (SES) are more vulnerable to the…
Read moreRisky business: Engaging the public on sea level rise and inundation
To examine whether U.S. public opinion may become as sharply polarized on adaptation responses as…
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When Should Environmental Awareness Be a Policy Goal? Assessing the Conditions Under Which Raising Awareness Increases Environmental Sustainability and Societal Resilience
Since the 1970s, governments have increasingly sought to achieve greater environmental awareness among their citizens…
Read moreDocumenting the Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
Climate change is harming human health, and the magnitude of the harm is increasing. This…
Read moreThe Role of Collective Efficacy in Climate Change Adaptation in India
Research on adaptive capacity often focuses on economics and technology, despite evidence from the social…
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Vulnerable Populations Perceive Their Health as at Risk from Climate Change
In this 2013 survey we measured Maryland residents’ climate beliefs, health risk perceptions, and household…
Read moreHighlighting Consensus Among Medical Scientists Increases Public Support For Vaccines: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
A substantial minority of American adults continue to hold influential misperceptions about childhood vaccine safety.…
Read moreImproving Public Engagement with Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights from Psychological Science
Despite being one of the most important societal challenges of the 21st century, public engagement…
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Local Climate Experts: The Influence of Local TV Weather Information on Climate Change Perceptions
Individuals who identify changes in their local climate are also more likely to report that…
Read moreDo Americans Understand Global Warming is Harmful to Health? Evidence from a National Survey
Global warming has significant negative consequences for human health, with some groups at greater risk…
Read moreClimate Matters: A Comprehensive Educational Resource Program for Broadcast Meteorologists
Global climate change is influencing the weather in every region of the United States, often…
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Mona Safarty, MD MPH, and Edward Maibach, MPH PhD, in Climate Change and Public Health
Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects,…
Read moreSimple Messages Help Set the Record Straight about Scientific Agreement on Human-Caused Climate Change: The Results of Two Experiments
Human-caused climate change is happening; nearly all climate scientists are convinced of this basic fact…
Read moreViews of AAAAI Members on Climate Change and Health
The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) assessed their members’ knowledge, attitudes, and…
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The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change as a Gateway Belief: Experimental Evidence
There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific consensus on human-caused climate…
Read moreAmerican Thoracic Society (ATS) Member Survey on Climate Change and Health
This article presents the results of a survey of the American Thoracic Society and the Center…
Read moreA Survey of African American Physicians on the Health Effects of Climate Change
The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many…
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