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Did concern about COVID-19 drain from a ‘finite pool of worry’ for climate change? Results from longitudinal panel data
Gregersen, Thea; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Sætrevik, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)According to the ‘finite pool of worry’ hypothesis, one may expect that introducing a novel concern (e.g., about a pandemic) may reduce concern about an existing issue (e.g., about climate change). Drawing upon representative ... -
Emotional reactions to climate change: A comparison across France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom
Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger; Doran, Rouven; Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Poortinga, Wouter; Tvinnereim, Endre Meyer; Steentjes, Katharine; Mays, Claire; Bertoldo, Raquel; Sonnberger, Marco; Pidgeon, Nicholas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07-06)We present a study of emotional reactions to climate change utilizing representative samples from France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK). Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, we examine relations between ... -
Expected climate change consequences and their role in explaining individual risk judgments
Gregersen, Thea Johansen; Doran, Rouven; Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines what individuals expect will be the most important impacts of climate change on their respective countries, and how these expectations relate to individual riskjudgments. Open-ended responses from ... -
Exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5 °C global warming is linked to perceived threat and increased concern about climate change
Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates the influence of exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5°C global warming on climate change attitudes. Among a nationally representative sample of the Norwegian public, we found that exposure ... -
Individual and local flooding experiences are differentially associated with subjective attribution and climate change concern
Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While several studies show an association between flooding experience and climate change engagement, a few show no evidence of such a link. Here, we explore the potential that this inconsistency relates to the measurement ... -
Laypeople's affective images of energy transition pathways
Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper explores the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, individual behaviors, political strategies, and technologies that aim to foster a shift toward a low-carbon and sustainable society. We ... -
Mapping perceptions of energy transition pathways: Ascribed motives and effectiveness
Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger; Hanss, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examines how people perceive possible pathways of a societal transition towards less carbon intensive means of energy production and use. Data were collected with questionnaires among samples of university ... -
Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries
Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Pallesen, Ståle; Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Bhullar, Navjot; Aquino, Sibele; Marot, Tiago; Schermer, Julie Aitken; Wlodarczyk, Anna; Lu, Su; Jiang, Feng; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Hanss, Daniel; Maran, Daniela Acquadro; Ardi, Rahkman; Chegeni, Razieh; Tahir, Hajra; Ghanbarian, Elahe; Park, Joonha; Tsubakita, Takashi; Tan, Chee-Seng; van den Broek, Karlijn L.; Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika; Ojewumi, Kehinde; Reyes, Marc Eric S.; Lins, Samuel; Enea, Violeta; Volkodav, Tatiana; Sollar, Tomas; Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés; Torres-Marín, Jorge; Mbungu, Winfred; Onyutha, Charles; Lomas, Michael J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Climate change threatens mental health via increasing exposure to the social and economic disruptions created by extreme weather and large-scale climatic events, as well as through the anxiety associated with recognising ... -
Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors
Gregersen, Thea Johansen; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Poortinga, Wouter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)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 ... -
Political orientation moderates the relationship between climate change beliefs and worry about climate change
Gregersen, Thea; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Tvinnereim, Endre; Poortinga, Wouter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Public perceptions are well established as a key factor in support for climate change mitigation policies, and they tend to vary both within and between countries. Based on data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (N ... -
Using card sorting to explore the mental representation of energy transition pathways among laypeople
Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Hanss, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Meeting international emission targets will require major changes in the energy system. This paper addresses the public perception of different pathways to energy transition, and their mental representation in particular. ... -
What does the public think about microplastics? Insights from an empirical analysis of mental models elicited through free associations
Rodriguez, Marcos Felipe; Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Doran, Rouven (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Microplastics are an issue of rising concern, in terms of their possible implications for both the environment and human health. A survey was distributed among a representative sample of the adult Norwegian population (N ...