Carter Scholz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1226688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carter Scholz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carter |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6567-7504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring Facilitators and Disruptors of Polarization During Adolescence Within Contested Settings
Today’s adolescents must find ways to engage in a shared reality, especially in settings marked by intergroup conflict, as a prerequisite for reducing conflict and building collective solutions to societal problems. Polarization processes (epistemic) have been notably overlooked within this critical developmental period. This qualitative case study addresses this gap by identifying key socializing actors and settings within established theoretica…
The social life of health-promotion messages
In rich, dynamic information environments, health-promotion messages are often viewed in close spatial and/or temporal proximity to thematically-related messages which may be congruent or contradictory in valence and source. For instance, young adults frequently encounter competing alcohol-related content from alcohol brands and health officials, partygoing peers and concerned parents. Which voices prevail when encountered in close succession and…
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
The role of mental well-being in the effects of persuasive health messages
Emerging evidence in health communication and psychology suggests that a) exposure to specific persuasive health messages can have unintended effects on the mental well-being of recipients and b) recipients' mental well-being before exposure can influence message processing. Available evidence regarding the relationship between mental well-being and exposure to specific health messages lacks consistency and is scattered across different fields. T…
Intervening through Conversations
A promising avenue for health behavior change is to influence conversational valence, that is, the extent to which people talk negatively or positively about health behaviors. However, no research to date has experimentally manipulated conversational valence, thereby inhibiting conclusions about causal inferences. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating the influence of conversational valence instructions on perceived conversational val…
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
Polansky, Larry
Conlan Nancarrow
I-Vi
Soundings Press
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
Soundings Press
Conlan Nancarrow
I-Vi
Polansky, Larry
Intervening through Conversations
A promising avenue for health behavior change is to influence conversational valence, that is, the extent to which people talk negatively or positively about health behaviors. However, no research to date has experimentally manipulated conversational valence, thereby inhibiting conclusions about causal inferences. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating the influence of conversational valence instructions on perceived conversational val…
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
The role of mental well-being in the effects of persuasive health messages
Emerging evidence in health communication and psychology suggests that a) exposure to specific persuasive health messages can have unintended effects on the mental well-being of recipients and b) recipients' mental well-being before exposure can influence message processing. Available evidence regarding the relationship between mental well-being and exposure to specific health messages lacks consistency and is scattered across different fields. T…
Exploring Facilitators and Disruptors of Polarization During Adolescence Within Contested Settings
Today’s adolescents must find ways to engage in a shared reality, especially in settings marked by intergroup conflict, as a prerequisite for reducing conflict and building collective solutions to societal problems. Polarization processes (epistemic) have been notably overlooked within this critical developmental period. This qualitative case study addresses this gap by identifying key socializing actors and settings within established theoretica…
The social life of health-promotion messages
In rich, dynamic information environments, health-promotion messages are often viewed in close spatial and/or temporal proximity to thematically-related messages which may be congruent or contradictory in valence and source. For instance, young adults frequently encounter competing alcohol-related content from alcohol brands and health officials, partygoing peers and concerned parents. Which voices prevail when encountered in close succession and…
Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)