This study uses an unobtrusive eye tracking approach to examine understudied psychological mechanisms—message...
Journal Articles Articles
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
Fossil 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 clean energy economy will...
Understanding and countering misinformation about climate change
ABSTRACT While there is overwhelming scientific agreement on climate change, the public has become polarized over...
Turning Climate Misinformation into an Educational Opportunity: Chapter 2
Our Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunities (TMEO) Teacher Ambassadors have developed and...
Increasing Public Awareness and Facilitating Behavior Change: Two Guiding Heuristics
If there is a single aspiration that unifies the professionals who work on the challenges associated with climate...
Communicating Sea Level Rise
Three quarters of the world’s large cities are located on coasts. As climate change causes oceans to warm and expand,...
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 communicating...
Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence
The Consumer as Climate Activist
Consumption of green products is growing rapidly in the United States. We assessed the extent to which this...
TV Meteorologists as Local Climate Change Educators
Five years ago – in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC) – we tested the premise that if TV...
The Importance of Assessing and Communicating Scientific Consensus
The spread of influential misinformation, such as conspiracy theories about the existence of a secret, large-scale...
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