The Future is Now: Reducing Psychological Distance to Increase Public Engagement with Climate Change

Many people perceive climate change as psychologically distant—a set of uncertain events that might occur far in the future, impacting distant places and affecting people dissimilar to themselves. In this study, we employed construal level theory to investigate whether a climate change communication...

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Published in:	Risk analysis Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 331 - 341
Main Authors:	Jones, Charlotte, Hine, Donald W., Marks, Anthony D. G.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2017
Subjects:	Climate Climate change Climate change communication climate change concern Communication construal level theory Consumer attitudes Consumer education Environmental impact Frame analysis Frames Mitigation Path analysis Perceptions Principal components analysis psychological distance Public participation Risk analysis Social distance Strategy Studies Uncertainty United States > US Australia psychological distance climate change concern construal level theory Climate change communication
ISSN:	0272-4332, 1539-6924
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