How and when higher climate change risk perception promotes less climate change inaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 128952
Author(s):  
Changcheng Wang ◽  
Liuna Geng ◽  
Julián D. Rodríguez-Casallas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Risk

scholarly journals The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Familiarity, Effects on Children, and Fairness on Climate Change Risk Perception Moderated by Political Orientation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6722
Author(s):  
Myoungsoon You ◽  
Youngkee Ju
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Delayed Effects ◽  
Effects On Children ◽  
Personal Stake

Outrage factors are perceived characteristics of risk that provoke emotional responses and influence risk perception. Although several studies examined how multiple influences affect climate change risk perception, outrage factors have not been comprehensively assessed in the context of climate change risk perception. Using an online survey in South Korea (n = 592), we investigated outrage factors associated with climate change risk perception and whether political orientation moderates these outrage effects. We considered 11 of 20 outrage factors: voluntariness, controllability, familiarity, fairness, uncertainty, delayed effects, effects on children, trust, reversibility, personal stake, and human vs. natural origin. Factors that overlapped with the selected outrage factors or those that were not relevant to climate change were excluded. The survey revealed that the climate change risk perception of an individual increased when they perceived climate change to be relevant to their personal lives, when they felt unfamiliar with climate change, when they thought climate change would have a severe impact on children, or when they thought climate change would have unequal consequences. Moreover, respondents who identified as political conservatives were subject to a greater outrage effect of personal stake for climate change. The implications of the outrage effect on climate change risk perception and the greater vulnerability of conservatives to outrage effect are discussed.

A value orientation approach to assess and compare climate change risk perception among trout anglers in Georgia, USA

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Paudyal ◽  
Neelam C. Poudyal ◽  
J.M. Bowker ◽  
Adrienne M. Dorison ◽  
Stanley J. Zarnoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
A Value

Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Sensory Level ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Individuals, both within and between different countries, vary substantially in the extent to which they view climate change as a risk. What could explain such variation in climate change risk perception around the world? Climate change is relatively unique as a risk in the sense that it is difficult for people to experience directly or even detect on a purely perceptual or sensory level. In fact, research across the social and behavioral sciences has shown that although people might correctly perceive some changes in long-term climate conditions, psychological factors are often much more influential in determining how the public perceives the risk of climate change. Indeed, decades of research has shown that cognitive, affective, social, and cultural factors all greatly influence the public’s perception of risk, and that these factors, in turn, often interact with each other in complex ways. Yet, although a wide variety of cognitive, experiential, socio-cultural and demographic characteristics have all proven to be relevant, are there certain factors that systematically stand out in explaining and predicting climate change risk perception around the world? And even if so, what do we mean, exactly, by the term “risk perception” and to what extent does the way in which risk perception is measured influence the outcome? Last but certainly not least, how important is public concern about climate change in determining people’s level of behavioral engagement and policy-support for the issue?

Understanding climate change risk perception in the USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Vedlitz ◽  
Himanshu Grover ◽  
Samuel D. Brody
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
The Usa

How Emotion Trumps Logic in Climate Change Risk Perception: Exploring the Affective Heuristic Among Wildlife Science Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn T. Stevenson ◽  
Marcus A. Lashley ◽  
M. Colter Chitwood ◽  
M. Nils Peterson ◽  
Christopher E. Moorman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Affective Heuristic

Understanding climate change risk perception in the USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Grover ◽  
Samuel D. Brody ◽  
Arnold Vedlitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
The Usa
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