Corrigendum: Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy

Harvey, Jeffrey A.; Berg, Daphne van den; Ellers, Jacintha; Kampen, Remko; Crowther, Thomas W.; Roessingh, Peter; Verheggen, B.; Nuijten, Rascha J.M.; Post, Eric; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Stirling, Ian; Balgopal, Meena M.; Amstrup, Steven C.; Mann, Michael

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“…On the other hand, people might erroneously believe that a dependent consensus is independent, and thus weight it more highly than they should. For instance, the majority of science-denying blogs rely on the same few primary sources (Harvey et al, 2018) and most COVID-19 anti-vaccination views originated from the same few people (Center for Countering Digital Hate, 2021).…”

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Source independence affects argument persuasiveness when the relevance is clear

Alister¹,

Perfors²,

Ransom³

2022

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Making inferences about claims we do not have direct experience with is a common feature of everyday life. In these situations, it makes sense to consult others: an apparent consensus may be a useful cue to the truth of a claim. This strategy is not without its challenges. The utility of a consensus should depend in part on the sources of evidence that underlie it. If each person based their conclusion on independent data then the fact that they agree is informative. If, instead, every- one relied on the same primary source, the consensus is less meaningful. However, the extent to which people are actually sensitive to this kind of source independence is still unclear. Here, we present the results of three experiments that examine this issue in a social media setting, by varying the sources of primary data cited via retweets. In each experiment, participants rated their agreement with 12 different claims before and after reading four tweets that were retweeted on the basis of either the same or different primary data. We found that people were sensitive to source independence only when it was clear that the tweeters had relied on the primary data to reach their conclusion. Implications for existing research are discussed.

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Source independence affects argument persuasiveness when the relevance is clear

Alister¹,

Perfors²,

Ransom³

2022

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“…Climate change poses a potent threat to not only the natural environment, but also to individual physical and mental well-being (Government of Canada, 2019; Kenny et al, 2018;Luber et al, 2014), and further serves to exacerbate existing social inequities (Islam & Winkel, 2017), among both Canadian and global populations. Yet, despite the tangible effects and mounting empirical evidence, many individuals remain unconvinced of the threat that climate change poses (Harvey et al, 2018;McCright et al, 2016), or are otherwise unwilling to take personal action (Gifford, 2011).…”

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“…Moreover, skeptics continue to undermine adaptation efforts (Buys et al, 2012;Harvey et al, 2018). Climate change mitigation and adaptation practices are vital to the resilience of Canadian communities (Furgal & Seguin, 2006;Kenny et al, 2018;Watt-Cloutier, 2018), and as such, endorsement of pro-environmental policies, as well as individual action and activism, is crucial.…”

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Community perceptions and pro-environmental behavior: The mediating roles of social norms and climate change risk.

Smith¹,

Dupré²,

McEvoy³

et al. 2021

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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Adapting to climate change in Canada will require collective action, and as such, gaining a better understanding of the social factors predicting pro-environmental behaviors is vital. In the current study, using theory from the organizational psychology domain, we examined whether individuals’ attachment to their community and perceptions of their community’s resilience were related to the extent to which individuals perceived norms related to pro-environmental action within close others, and in turn, whether these social norms are associated with perceptions of climate change risk and subsequent willingness to engage in pro-environmental behavior. Findings from 1,156 Canadian citizens or permanent residents supported the hypotheses. Mediation analyses indicated that, first, descriptive and prescriptive norms for pro-environmental behavior, and then perceptions of climate change risk, serially mediated the association between community attachment and resilience and willingness to engage in social advocacy and tax support to adapt to climate change in their community. In the face of a rapidly changing climate across Canadian communities, this contextual understanding of pro-environmental activism and influence, as well as implications pertaining to the importance of community identification, culture, norms, and leadership, has implications for future research and practice.

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Cult of the Climate Change Polar Bear: Knut is Dead, Long Live Knut

Stirling¹

2017

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Corrigendum: Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy

Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix133.].

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Source independence affects argument persuasiveness when the relevance is clear

Source independence affects argument persuasiveness when the relevance is clear

Community perceptions and pro-environmental behavior: The mediating roles of social norms and climate change risk.

Cult of the Climate Change Polar Bear: Knut is Dead, Long Live Knut

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