Reducing Climate Change Denial and Increasing Support for Climate-Friendly Policies: The Role of Climate Change Education

IF 4 1区社会学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI:10.1111/josi.12664

Sheri R. Levy, Caitlin Monahan, Ashley Araiza, Luisa Ramırez, Ximena Palacios-Espinosa

{"title":"Reducing Climate Change Denial and Increasing Support for Climate-Friendly Policies: The Role of Climate Change Education","authors":"Sheri R. Levy, Caitlin Monahan, Ashley Araiza, Luisa Ramırez, Ximena Palacios-Espinosa","doi":"10.1111/josi.12664","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>Insufficient US public education and misinformation from other sources contribute to climate change (CC) denial. Public US university students in the South (Study 1) and Northeast (Studies 1 and 2) were randomly assigned to watch two educational science videos on CC (experimental condition) or flu viruses (control condition). Experimental (vs. control) condition participants reported (a) less agreement with statements reflecting CC denial (immediate post-test [Studies 1 and 2] and delayed post-test [Study 2]); (b) greater agreement with statements about the existence, seriousness, and human causes of CC and hope for CC interventions (immediate post-test [Studies 1 and 2]); (c) greater intentions to support climate-friendly US policies (immediate post-test [Study 1]); and (d) less negative feelings about CC (delayed post-test [Study 2]), when controlling for gender and political leaning. Implications for effectively addressing CC education among university students with relatively easy-to-implement, time-efficient, and cost-effective interventions are discussed.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Social Issues","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.12664","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Insufficient US public education and misinformation from other sources contribute to climate change (CC) denial. Public US university students in the South (Study 1) and Northeast (Studies 1 and 2) were randomly assigned to watch two educational science videos on CC (experimental condition) or flu viruses (control condition). Experimental (vs. control) condition participants reported (a) less agreement with statements reflecting CC denial (immediate post-test [Studies 1 and 2] and delayed post-test [Study 2]); (b) greater agreement with statements about the existence, seriousness, and human causes of CC and hope for CC interventions (immediate post-test [Studies 1 and 2]); (c) greater intentions to support climate-friendly US policies (immediate post-test [Study 1]); and (d) less negative feelings about CC (delayed post-test [Study 2]), when controlling for gender and political leaning. Implications for effectively addressing CC education among university students with relatively easy-to-implement, time-efficient, and cost-effective interventions are discussed.

查看原文本刊更多论文

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Social Issues Multiple-

CiteScore

9.70

自引率

7.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Published for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) brings behavioral and social science theory, empirical evidence, and practice to bear on human and social problems. Each issue of the journal focuses on a single topic - recent issues, for example, have addressed poverty, housing and health; privacy as a social and psychological concern; youth and violence; and the impact of social class on education.