When Truth Is Personally Inconvenient, Attitudes Change: The Impact of Extreme Weather on Implicit Support for Green Politicians and Explicit Climate-Change Beliefs

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2290-2296

  Rudman, Laurie A ^a   McLean, Meghan C ^a   Bunzl, Martin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitude change; environmentalism; global warming; implicit attitudes; political psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HURRICANE; IMPLICIT ATTITUDES; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY; POLITICS; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTITUDE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GLOBAL WARMING; IMPLICIT ATTITUDES; POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONIC STORMS; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; WEATHER; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887389091     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613492775     Document Type: Article

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