Your opinion on climate change might not be as common as you think

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 334-337

  Leviston, Z ^a   Walker, I ^a   Morwinski, S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY; WESTERN WORLD;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875735456     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1743     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Ross, L., Greene, D. & House, P. The false consensus effect: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 13, 279-301 (1977
2. Prentice, D. & Miller, D. Pluralistic ignorance and the perpetuation of social norms by unwitting actors. Adv. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 28, 161-209 (1996
3. Bain, P. G., Hornsey, M. J., Bongiorno, R. & Jeffries, C. Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers. Nature Clim. Change 2, 600-603 (2012
4. Gifford, R., Kormos, C. & McIntyre, A. Behavioral dimensions of climate change: Drivers, responses, barriers, and interventions. WIREs: Climatic Change 2, 801-827 (2011
5. Leviston, Z. & Walker, I. Baseline Survey of Australian Attitudes to Climate Change: Preliminary Report. (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 2010); available at http://www.csiro.au/files/files/ p102a.pdf
6. Roser-Renouf, C. & Nisbet, M. The measurement of key behavioral science constructs in climate change research. Int. J. Sustain. 3, 37-95 (2008
7. Hart, P. S. & Nisbet, E. C. Boomerang effects in science communication: How motivated reasoning and identity cues amplify opinion polarization about climate mitigation policies. Commun. Res. 39, 701-723 (2012
8. Kahan, D. M. et al. The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks. Nature Clim. Change 2, 732-735 (2012
9. McCright, A. M. & Dunlap, R. E. Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States. Glob. Environ. Change 21, 1163-1172 (2011
10. Feygina, I., Jost, J. T. & Goldsmith, R. E. System justification, the denial of global warming, and the possibility of system-sanctioned change. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 36, 326-38 (2010
11. Shamir, J. & Shamir, M. Pluralistic ignorance across issues and over time: Information cues and biases. Public Opin. Quart. 61, 227-260 (1997
12. Gross, S. R. & Miller, N. The ̀golden section' and bias in perceptions of social consensus. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev. 1, 241-271 (1997
13. Wojcieszak, M. & Price, V. What underlies the false consensus effect? How personal opinion and disagreement affect perception of public opinion. Int. J. Public Opin. R. 21, 25-46 (2009
14. Monin, B. & Norton, M. I. Perceptions of a fluid consensus: Uniqueness bias, false consensus, false polarization, and pluralistic ignorance in a water conservation crisis. Pers. Soc. Psychol. B 29, 559-567 (2003
15. Mullen, B. The false consensus effect: A meta-Analysis of 115 hypothesis tests. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 21, 262-283 (1985
16. Marks, G. & Miller, N. Ten years of research on the false-consensus effect: An empirical and theoretical review. Psychol. Bull. 102, 72-90 (1987
17. Botvin, G., Botvin, E., Baker, E., Dusenbury, L. & Goldberg, C. The false consensus effect: Predicting adolescents' tobacco use from normative expectations. Psychol. Rep. 70, 171-178 (1992
18. Noelle-Neumann, E. The Spiral of Silence 2nd edn (Univ. Chicago Press, 1993
19. Poortinga, W., Spence, A., Whitmarsh, L., Capstick, S. & Pidgeon, N. F. Uncertain climate: An investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change. Glob. Environ. Change 21, 1015-1024 (2011
20. Bacon, W. A Sceptical Climate: Media Coverage of Climate Change in Australia. Part 1-Climate Change Policy. (The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, Univ. Technology, 2011
21. Boykoff, M. T. From convergence to contention: United States mass media representations of anthropogenic climate change science. Transactions 32, 477-489 (2007
22. Corbett, J. B. & Durfee, J. L. Testing public (un)certainty of science: Media representations of global warming. Sci. Commun. 26, 129-151 (2004
23. Dispensa, J. M. & Brulle, R. J. Media's social construction of environmental issues: Focus on global warming-A comparative study. Int. Soc. Soc. Policy 23, 74-105 (2003
24. Watt, S. E. & Larkin, C. Prejudiced people perceive more community support for their views: The role of own, media, and peer attitudes in perceived consensus. J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 40, 710-731 (2010
25. Manne, R. Murdoch's Australia and the shaping of a nation. Quart. Essay 43, 1-119 (2011
26. De la Haye, A. A methodological note about the measurement of the false-consensus effect. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol. 30, 569-581 (2000
27. Leviston, Z., Leitch, A., Greenhill, M., Leonard, R. & Walker, I. Australians' Views of Climate Change (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 2011
28. Greenhill, M., Leviston, Z. & Walker, I. Assessing Climate Change Beliefs: Question Wording and Criterion Validity (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 2012
29. Leviston, Z. & Walker, I. Second Annual Survey of Australian Attitudes to Climate Change: Interim Report (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 2011); available at http://www.csiro.au/ resources/ Climate-change-Attitudes-online-survey