Since the 1970s, governments have increasingly sought to achieve greater environmental awareness among their citizens...
Journal Articles Articles
Documenting the Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
Climate change is harming human health, and the magnitude of the harm is increasing. This is especially true in...
The Role of Collective Efficacy in Climate Change Adaptation in India
Research on adaptive capacity often focuses on economics and technology, despite evidence from the social sciences...
Attitude Change in Competitive Framing Environments? Open/Closed-Mindedness and Framing Effects about Climate Change
Framing scholarship on policy issues has primarily focused on how competitive message environments alter framing...
The Relationship Between Personal Experience and Belief in the Reality of Global Warming
In this paper, we address the chicken-or-egg question posed by two alternative explanations for the relationship...
Knowing Our Options for Setting the Record Straight, When Doing So is Particularly Important
Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Disney’s Fantasia, many people in today’s society are experiencing a rapidly...
Do People “Personally Experience” Global Warming, and If So How, and Does It Matter?
For most people, the direct and personally observable signals of climate change should be difficult to detect amid the...
The Legacy of “Climategate:” Undermining or Revitalizing Climate Science and Policy?
In mid-November 2009, emails were removed without authorization from a University of East Anglia server and posted to...
A Public Health Frame Arouses Hopeful Emotions about Climate Change
Communication researchers and practitioners have suggested that framing climate change in terms of public health...
Information Seeking About Global Climate Change Among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs and Parental Influences
Global climate change is likely to have significant impacts on public health. Effective communication is critical to...
Goodbye, Listwise Deletion. Presenting Hot Deck Imputation as an Easy and Effective Tool for Handling Missing Data
Missing data are a ubiquitous problem in quantitative communication research, yet the missing data handling practices...
Time to Take Action on Climate Communication
According to Broad International Agreement, a global warming increase beyond 2°C is unacceptable. Because of the...
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