We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Changes in Global Warming’s Six Americas: An...
Journal Articles Articles
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,...
An 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...
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
This article explores how emotions such as hope and doubt significantly impact efforts to mobilize action against...
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...
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
Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can...
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...
Developing 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 health impacts...
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