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1. Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

Author

Piwowar, Arkadiusz, Gregersen, Thea, Doran, Rouven, Böhm, Gisela, and Poortinga, Wouter

Subjects
Male, Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Social Sciences, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, Outcome (game theory), Geographical Locations, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Sociology, Surveys and Questionnaires, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Psychology, media_common, Climatology, Multidisciplinary, Mathematical Models, European Social Survey, Europe, VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260, Medicine, Female, Worry, Social psychology, Research Article, 020209 energy, Energy (esotericism), media_common.quotation_subject, Climate Change, Science, Climate change, Research and Analysis Methods, Humans, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Behavior, Motivation, Global warming, expectancy, Cognitive Psychology, Biology and Life Sciences, Educational attainment, Communications, Energy consumption, Collective Human Behavior, People and Places, Earth Sciences, Cognitive Science, Anthropogenic Climate Change, Neuroscience
Abstract

This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use. publishedVersion

Published
2021

2. Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science

Author

Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, and Ann Hillier

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Atmospheric Science, History, Emotions, Social Sciences, lcsh:Medicine, 02 engineering and technology, Scientific literature, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Citation analysis, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Psychology, lcsh:Science, Language, Climatology, Principal Component Analysis, Multidisciplinary, Research Assessment, Publishing, Physical Sciences, Regression Analysis, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Journal Impact Factor, Statistics (Mathematics), Research Article, Science Policy, Climate Change, Climate change, Linear Regression Analysis, Bibliometrics, Research and Analysis Methods, 03 medical and health sciences, Literary theory, Narrative, Statistical Methods, business.industry, lcsh:R, Narrativity, Cognitive Psychology, Biology and Life Sciences, Epistemology, 030104 developmental biology, Multivariate Analysis, Earth Sciences, Cognitive Science, lcsh:Q, business, Mathematics, Neuroscience
Abstract

Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we derive metrics of narrativity from psychology and literary theory, and use these metrics to test the hypothesis that more narrative climate change writing is more likely to be influential, using citation frequency as a proxy for influence. From a sample of 732 scientific abstracts drawn from the climate change literature, we find that articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often. This effect is closely associated with journal identity: higher-impact journals tend to feature more narrative articles, and these articles tend to be cited more often. These results suggest that writing in a more narrative style increases the uptake and influence of articles in climate literature, and perhaps in scientific literature more broadly.

Published
2016