In this 2013 survey we measured Maryland residents’ climate beliefs, health risk perceptions, and household social...
Journal Articles Articles
Highlighting Consensus Among Medical Scientists Increases Public Support For Vaccines: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
A substantial minority of American adults continue to hold influential misperceptions about childhood vaccine safety....
Improving Public Engagement with Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights from Psychological Science
Despite being one of the most important societal challenges of the 21st century, public engagement with climate change...
Framing Peak Petroleum as a Public Health Problem: Audience Research and Participatory Engagement
Between December 2009 and January 2010, we conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of US adults to...
Audience Segmentation as a Tool for Communicating Climate Change: Understanding the Differences and Bridging the Divides
Communicating climate change to 300 million national park visitors each year represents both an enormous challenge and...
A Rose By Any Other Name? What Members of the General Public Prefer to Call “Climate Change”
Unlike many other environmental problems, the terms used to describe the phenomenon of increasing atmospheric...
Identifying Like-Minded Audiences for Global Warming Public Engagement Campaigns: An Audience Segmentation Analysis and Tool Development
Achieving national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will require public support for climate and energy policies...
ClimateGate Undermined Belief in Global Warming Among Many TV Meteorologists
“Climategate”—the unauthorized release of, and news stories about, e-mails between climate scientists in the United...
Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Health Risk: Surveys of the United States
We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and...
Reframing Climate Change as a Public Health Issue: An Exploratory Study of Public Reactions
Climate change is taking a toll on human health, and some leaders in the public health community have urged their...
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul Edwards [Book Review]
For communication scholars, the oft-cited dynamics of the climate debates are all too familiar: media covering science...
Promoting Physical Activity and Reducing Climate Change
Automobile use is a significant contributor to climate change, local air pollution, pedestrian injuries and deaths,...
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