scholarly journals Visualizing climate change: the role of construal level, emotional valence, and visual literacy

2022 ◽  
Vol 170 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Duan ◽  
Christian Bombara
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Construal Level

Visualizing Climate Change: The Role of Construal Level, Emotional Valence, and Visual Literacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Duan ◽  
Christian Bombara
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Negative Feelings

Abstract This study examines how the level of concreteness and abstraction of climate change imagery influences people’s responses via emotional valence, and how such effect is moderated by people’s visual literacy. Findings show that concrete images promote negative feelings, which subsequently reduce people’s perceived distance to climate change, encourage concern and behavioral intention. Less visually literate people are more influenced by the visuals’ effect and are more motivated by concrete images. Our study integrates theoretical perspectives from construal level, emotional valence and visual literacy, while also offering practical advice regarding how to effectively visualize climate change to engage a wide audience.

How Effective Are Concrete and Abstract Climate Change Images? The Moderating Role of Construal Level in Climate Change Visual Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 107554702110081
Author(s):  
Ran Duan ◽  
Bruno Takahashi ◽  
Adam Zwickle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Climate Change Responses ◽  
Level Of Concern ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Practical Implications

Relying on construal-level theory, we experimentally test how the level of concreteness and abstraction of climate change imagery affects climate change responses among a diverse sample of U.S. adults ( N = 448). Results show that concrete visual messaging practices cannot directly lead to increased level of concern or behavioral intentions. Instead, they may backfire for conservatives, less-efficacious people, and people who are low in proenvironmental values. Our findings contribute to the effective climate change visual communication literature by incorporating a construal-level perspective, while also offering practical implications regarding how to use visuals more effectively to engage the public with climate change.

Exploring the Role of Heuristics and Constructed Beliefs in Climate-Change Perception

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Keenan ◽  
Lisa Zaval ◽  
Ye Li ◽  
Eric J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Change Perception ◽  
Climate Change Perception

The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward John Roy Clarke ◽  
Anna Klas ◽  
Joshua Stevenson ◽  
Emily Jane Kothe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Diverse Audience

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

The Moderating Role of Consumers' Construal Level on Cause-related Messages

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungho Kang ◽  
한상우 ◽  
Lee, Hangeun
Keyword(s):  
Construal Level ◽  
Moderating Role

Development as Self-Interest

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Blodgett Bermeo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

This chapter introduces the role of development as a self-interested policy pursued by industrialized states in an increasingly connected world. As such, it is differentiated from traditional geopolitical accounts of interactions between industrialized and developing states as well as from assertions that the increased focus on development stems from altruistic motivations. The concept of targeted development—pursuing development abroad when and where it serves the interests of the policymaking states—is introduced and defined. The issue areas covered in the book—foreign aid, trade agreements between industrialized and developing countries, and finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation—are introduced. The preference for bilateral, rather than multilateral, action is discussed.

scholarly journals Individualist–Collectivist Differences in Climate Change Inaction: The Role of Perceived Intractability

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Xiang ◽  
Haibo Zhang ◽  
Liuna Geng ◽  
Kexin Zhou ◽  
Yuping Wu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change

Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252110206
Author(s):  
Lyn M. van Swol ◽  
Emma Frances Bloomfield ◽  
Chen-Ting Chang ◽  
Stephanie Willes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Group Consensus ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Group Attraction ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
To Come ◽  
Collective Engagement

This study examined if creating intimacy in a group discussion is more effective toward reaching consensus about climate change than a focus on information. Participants were randomly assigned to either a group that spent the first part of an online discussion engaging in self-disclosure and focusing on shared values (intimacy condition) or discussing information from an article about climate change (information condition). Afterward, all groups were given the same instructions to try to come to group consensus on their opinions about climate change. Participants in the intimacy condition had higher ratings of social cohesion, group attraction, task interdependence, and collective engagement and lower ratings of ostracism than the information condition. Intimacy groups were more likely to reach consensus, with ostracism and the emotional tone of discussion mediating this effect. Participants were more likely to change their opinion to reflect that climate change is real in the intimacy than information condition.

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