Perception Matters: The Pitfalls of Misperceiving Psychological Barriers to Climate Policy

Weber, Elke U.

doi:10.1177/1745691618767910

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“…Consistent sub-national and temporal data on Americans' climate views also reveal dynamic social norms that may help correct misconceptions causing many to underestimate policy support and overestimate the extent of political polarization on climate change today [33][34][35][36][37][38]. Increasing climate policy actions in Europe, for example, have been bolstered by growth in awareness and concern for environmental issues over the past two decades [39].…”

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Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change: 2008–2020

Marlon

Wang

Bergquist

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Public attitudes toward climate change influence climate and energy policies and guide individual mitigation and adaptation behaviors. Over the last decade, as scientific certainty about the causes and impacts of, and solutions to the climate crisis has increased, cities, states, and regions in the United States have pursued diverse policy strategies. Yet, our understanding of how Americans’ climate views are changing remains largely limited to national trends. Here we use a large US survey dataset (N = 27,075) to estimate dynamic, state-level changes in 16 climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences over 13 years (2008-2020). We find increases in global warming issue importance and perceived harm in every state. Policy support, however, increased in more liberal states like California and New York, but remained stable elsewhere. Year-by-year estimates of state-level climate opinions can be used to support sub-national mitigation and adaptation efforts that depend on public support and engagement.

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confidence: 97%

Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change: 2008–2020

Marlon

Wang

Bergquist

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…3,10 Up to now, behavioral research has mainly focused on cognitive factors such as risk perceptions, beliefs, values, attitudes, perceptions of social norms, perceptions of action efficacy, bounded rationality, and cognitive biases. 3,[10][11][12] Similarly, most intervention and communication strategies target cognitive processes, which are leveraged in an attempt to change behavior, for instance by communicating about specific environmental problems and ways to reduce them, 13,14 by emphasizing the individual benefits of sustainable actions, 15 by reframing the issue of climate change to increase citizen engagement, 16,17 by implementing pricing policies to make sustainable behavior more attractive, 18 or by introducing default options to promote sustainable choices. 19 While these cognition-based approaches are important and sometimes do result in the intended behavior change, they are limited in their scope.…”

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Leveraging emotion for sustainable action

Brosch

Steg

2021

One Earth

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Behavioral science approaches to promoting sustainable action have mainly focused on cognitive processes, whereas the role of emotions has received comparably little attention. However, emotions have a great but currently not fully exploited potential to contribute to a sustainable behavior change. In this perspective, we summarize recent research emphasizing the central and indispensable role of emotion in human thinking and judgment. We discuss how these insights can promote affective reactivity toward sustainability issues, help leverage the potential of emotion to motivate action, and improve emotional climate change communication and intervention strategies. We outline a research agenda that we see as crucial for obtaining a solid evidence base on how emotions can optimally promote sustainable behavior. This paper is meant to stimulate discussion and a coordinated research effort on how emotions may be better leveraged to promote large-scale sustainable action and to promote a stronger integration of emotional strategies into the toolbox of policy makers. ll

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“…The deviations are rooted in psychological pitfalls resulting from limitations in perception, cognitive capacity and cognitive processing (Stanovich and West, 2000;Rabin, 2002;Slovic et al, 2004). For example, the perception ofand judgement onclimate change is often influenced by an individual's memory of recent or exceptional years rather than by scientific information contained in time series analysis and model projections (Weber, 2018). For these reasons, the capability of processing statistically described Ó 2021 The Authors.…”

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How Bayesian Are Farmers When Making Climate Adaptation Decisions? A Computer Laboratory Experiment for Parameterising Models of Expectation Formation

Eisele¹,

Troost²,

Berger³

2021

J Agricultural Economics

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As the consequences of climate change for agricultural production slowly unfold at the local level (sometimes with contradicting signals), farmers' information processing and decision making become more relevant for policy analysis and modelling. The major challenge is to reveal patterns in the way farmers form expectations about future production outcomes and to encode these findings into models of heterogeneous expectation formation. We developed and tested a payout-motivated field experiment to observe farmer decision-making under climate change and to examine how they form their expectations in a recursive-dynamic context. Participants were exposed to ambiguity and acquired incremental evidence about the true distribution of possible climate outcomes through repeated random draws. Simulation models used in agricultural and environmental research usually implement simple forms of adaptive agent expectation or completely neglect this issue by assuming perfect foresight or constant expectations. Our computer laboratory experiments with blue-and white-collar farmers from Southwest Germany (n = 97) suggest that expectation behaviour of a large share of farmers can be well replicated with Bayesian types of expectation models.

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Perception Matters: The Pitfalls of Misperceiving Psychological Barriers to Climate Policy

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change: 2008–2020

Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change: 2008–2020

Leveraging emotion for sustainable action

How Bayesian Are Farmers When Making Climate Adaptation Decisions? A Computer Laboratory Experiment for Parameterising Models of Expectation Formation

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