Communicating Climate Change: Reinforcing Comprehension and Personal Ties to Climate Change Through Maps

Johannsen, Irene M.; Lassonde, Karla A.; Wilkerson, Forrest D.; Schaab, Gertrud

doi:10.1080/00087041.2017.1386834

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“…This produced a set of principal components (PCs) that each consisted of a linear combination of donor characteristics. We retained the first three components (PC1, PC2, PC3) based on the criterion of Lott (1973), applicable for principal component regression as performed here ( Jolliffe, 2002 ). On the first component (PC1), a lower position corresponded to the political left, support for progressive parties, concern about climate change, and an egalitarian worldview; a higher position corresponded the political right, support for conservative parties, less concern about climate change, and a hierarchical worldview.…”

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“…This has been studied in both charitable donations and concern for climate change. However, results are often complex and context-specific ( Spence et al, 2012 ; Evans et al, 2014 ; Milfont et al, 2014 ; Stoknes, 2014 ; Brügger et al, 2015a , b ; McDonald et al, 2015 ; van der Linden et al, 2015 ; Wiest et al, 2015 ; Rickard et al, 2016 ; Weber, 2016 ; Everuss et al, 2017 ; Jones et al, 2017 ; Singh et al, 2017 ; Brugger and Pidgeon, 2018 ; Johannsen et al, 2018 ; Lee et al, 2018 ; Roser-Renouf and Maibach, 2018 ; Schuldt et al, 2018 ; Chen, 2019 ; Chu and Yang, 2019 ; Kim and Ahn, 2019 ; Mildenberger et al, 2019 ; Romero-Canyas et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2019 ).…”

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Climate Donations Inspired by Evidence-Based Fundraising

2022

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Everyone has an opportunity to contribute to climate solutions. To help people engage with this opportunity, it is critical to understand how climate organizations and fundraisers can best communicate with people and win their financial support. In particular, fundraisers often rely on practical skills and anecdotal beliefs at the expense of scientific knowledge. Fundraisers could be motivated to achieve a substantial boost in funding for climate solutions, if there is evidence of the financial gains that science-based fundraising makes available. In this Perspective, we provide a preliminary foray into such evidence. We bring together findings from philanthropic research and climate psychology to identify what factors can help captivate donors. Then, through an experimental study of a charitable appeal for a climate charity, we show how putting these factors into practice may contribute toward an increase in donated money. This provides optimism that evidence-based fundraising can inspire donors to contribute much-needed resources toward climate solutions.

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2022

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“…The final two studies used slightly different methodologies. One showed local and remote impacts either on a small-scale or large-scale map and found the scale to cause no difference in concern about climate change (PD not measured; Johannsen et al, 2018). This design used a within-participants, non-interactive manipulation, differing from the other designs, potentially explaining the different results.…”

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A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct

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The construct of psychological distance has gained traction as an explanation of why climate change is difficult to act on; it often feels far removed, with impacts arising in remote locations to other people or in an uncertain future. However, recent studies and narrative reviews have pointed out inconsistencies in the conceptualisation, operationalisation and results regarding the psychological distance of climate change, with research evidently struggling to develop the construct and determine its place in explaining and promoting pro-environmental behaviour. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature aimed at building an evidence base on which to develop research on psychological distance. Following a systematic search of three databases, 73 records with 84 individual studies were identified, which measured or manipulated the concept in relation to climate change. We find that psychological distance in the context of climate change is a dynamic, context-specific, multidimensional construct, which may be leading to current challenges in measurement and manipulation. We identify inconsistencies in cross-sectional and experimental studies and develop ideas for how these can be addressed. We recommend that researchers focus on specific aspects of climate change rather than a general notion of psychological distance towards climate change (e.g., studying different framings of the same event, policy or mitigation project). In doing this, it would be most effective to employ a bottom-up approach to developing the concept, with the further aims of determining how this more specific psychological distance is related to other variables such as identity or concern, and introducing more diversity in sample selection and research design.

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