An inconvenient truth? Can a film really affect psychological mood and our explicit attitudes towards climate change?

Semiotica

Volumn 2011, Issue 187, 2011, Pages 105-125

  Beattie, Geoffrey ^a   Sale, Laura ^a   McGuire, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

An Inconvenient Truth; climate change; emotion and global warming; explicit attitude to climate change

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053625956     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.2011.066     Document Type: Article

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