Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464

	Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support
	Ecker, Ullrich K. H.1; Butler, Lucy H.1; Hurlstone, Mark J.1,3; Kurz, Tim 1,4; Lewandowsky, Stephan 1,5; Cook, John 2
	2020-08
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	0272-4944
EISSN	1522-9610
摘要	The COVID-19 pandemic has understandably dominated public discourse, crowding out other important issues such as climate change. Currently, if climate change enters the arena of public debate, it primarily does so in direct relation to the pandemic. In two experiments, we investigated (1) whether portraying the response to the COVID-19 threat as a "trial run" for future climate action would increase climate-change concern and mitigation support, and (2) whether portraying climate change as a concern that needs to take a "back seat" while focus lies on economic recovery would decrease climate-change concern and mitigation support. We found no support for the effectiveness of a trial-run frame in either experiment. In Experiment 1, we found that a back-seat frame reduced participants' support for mitigative action. In Experiment 2, the back-seat framing reduced both climatechange concern and mitigation support; a combined inoculation and refutation was able to offset the drop in climate concern but not the reduction in mitigation support.
关键词	Climate change communication COVID-19 Mitigation support Framing Climate action
DOI	10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464
WOS关键词	MISINFORMATION
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Psychology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies ; Psychology, Multidisciplinary
出版者	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
专题	新冠肺炎循证社会科学证据集成
作者单位	1.Univ Western Australia; 2.George Mason Univ; 3.Univ Lancaster; 4.Univ Bath; 5.Univ Bristol
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ecker, Ullrich K. H.,Butler, Lucy H.,Hurlstone, Mark J.,et al. Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support[J]. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY,2020.
APA	Ecker, Ullrich K. H.,Butler, Lucy H.,Hurlstone, Mark J.,Kurz, Tim,Lewandowsky, Stephan,&Cook, John.(2020).Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support.JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY.
MLA	Ecker, Ullrich K. H.,et al."Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support".JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2020).