Kristin Haltinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 122960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Haltinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Haltinner |
| SIGNATURE | HALTINNER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8314-803X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Far-Right Support Among White Young Adults
The contemporary rise in the far right, marked by strong nationalist sentiments, xenophobia, and derogation of racial outgroups, necessitates an understanding of what drives individuals toward these views. Despite extensive research on personality and demographic factors influencing far-right support, the role of ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) remains under-explored, particularly in white families. Using a national sample of white young adults…
Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrust As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds? Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with self-identified climate c…
How Media, Information Sources, and Trust Shape Climate Change Denial or Doubt
Climate change skepticism presents an opportunity to examine the role of media, information, and trust on views about controversial scientific topics. Building on extant work on predictors of skepticism and the role of information and trust in shaping skeptical attitudes, in this paper, we examine the relationship between climate change skeptics’ access of media/information sources, trust, and the strength of their skepticism. Specifically, we us…
White Racial Identity and Its Link to Support for Far-Right Groups
Prior research indicates that far-right political groups tend to be disproportionately composed of and supported by white people. Drawing off the group identity and developmental literature, we add theoretical clarity to this relationship. We argue that a salient white racial identity motivates people to explore social contexts that affirm the value of being white. Many of these contexts (e.g., conservative media) reinforce and instill beliefs in…
Adding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Analyses of Climate Change Skepticism
Existing literature on perceptions of climate change skeptics does not include a direct examination of skeptics who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), likely because they make up a small percentage of the U.S. population (1.6%). However, the LDS church is one of the fastest growing religious sects in the nation and world and is acquiring more political power, especially in the western United States. Our research…
It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment
This article uses interview data with people who were once skeptical about climate change but have come to accept climate science to assess the factors that contribute to their shifts in perspectives. Our findings show two trajectories of change for skeptics, depending on the nature of their skepticism. For those who move from actively denying climate change, shifting beliefs about climate change occur via a profound need to reconcile what emerge…
Predictors of Pro-environmental Beliefs, Behaviors, and Policy Support among Climate Change Skeptics
Previous research suggests that climate skeptics may hold a series of environmental concerns and support for environmental policy that, if engaged with, could serve to (in part) mitigate climate change. Using a unique data set from an online survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are uncertain or skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, we explore the diversity of environmental concerns, environmental behaviors, and support fo…
Climate skeptics’ identity construction and (Dis)trust in science in the United States
In this paper we argue that climate change skepticism is an opinion-based social identity rooted in subjectively perceived marginality and exclusion from climate science. We use 33 interviews conducted with climate skeptics in Idaho and scholarship on social identity theory to examine identity construction among skeptics. Skeptics construct themselves as open-minded truth-seeking questioners of climate change and social outsiders who face ostraci…
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum
The Nature and Nuance of Climate Change Skepticism in the United States
We use data from 33 in-depth interviews conducted with residents in the rural inland Northwestern state of Idaho who self-identify as skeptical about anthropogenic climate change, to examine the nuance within the narratives that skeptics employ to voice their skepticism. Our findings show that the arguments employed by those who are skeptical of climate change do not constitute a clear typology of skepticism or 'skeptics.' Rather, individuals wea…
Pro-Environmental Views of Climate Skeptics
Using data from interviews with self-identified climate change skeptics, it becomes clear that there is a public misperception about climate change skepticism. Skeptics are concerned about pollution, support environmentally friendly policies, and oppose continued reliance on oil. Current climate change communication is problematic; here, we explore the policies that garner skeptics’ support
Trust/distrust judgments and perceptions of climate science
Using interviews with residents of Idaho (a rural northwest US state) who identify as skeptical of climate change, we examine how skeptics rationalize their doubts about climate science. Skeptics tend to question the reality and human causes of climate change by (1) raising concerns about incentive structures in science that could bias climatology, (2) doubting the accuracy of data and models used by climate scientists, and (3) perceiving some pr…
How Believing Climate Change is a “Hoax” Shapes Climate Skepticism in the United States
Using data gathered from an online survey of residents of the geographic Pacific Northwest (N = 1000) who are skeptical of climate change, we examine the nuances of the belief that climate change constitutes a ‘hoax’. In doing so, we begin to fill an important ‘conspiracy gap’ in extant literature on climate skepticism. Results reveal that, among climate change skeptics, conspiracy adherents are more likely to be male, politically conservative, o…
Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America
Teaching and learning guide for
Climate change skepticism as a psychological coping strategy
This article explores current sociological scholarship on climate skepticism and, drawing on recent literature in social psychology and behavioral science, presents an argument for future research on the relationship between emotion, information aversion, and climate denial. We extrapolate and unite these disconnected bodies of scholarship to argue that strong emotions such as fear may drive climate change skepticism and denial among some adheren…
It’s Broader than Just My Work Here
Among science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, the percentage participation of women in engineering has shown significant gains over the past few decades. However, women are still largely absent (or exist in very small numbers) in tenured academic ranks in several engineering sub-fields. In this study we present female and male engineers’ varying understandings of ‘scientific success’ as a potential contributor to women’s re…
Right-Wing Ideologies and Ideological Diversity in the Tea Party
This article extends prior research on right-wing ideology broadly and the ideology of the Tea Party specifically. Using data from 45 interviews with Tea Party activists and participant observation at Tea Party meetings, I map five distinct ideologies, used by subsets of the Tea Party Patriots membership: Christian Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Reformed Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Conspiracism
Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America
This book provides innovative pedagogy, theory, and strategies for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about gender and sex to today’s students. It
Individual Responsibility, Culture, or State Organized Enslavement? How Tea Party Activists Frame Racial Inequality
This article explores how Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists produce and circulate stories about racial inequality, presenting four distinct frames that reflect nonconformity in the Tea Party's racial narrative. Activists engage with four racial frames: racism denial, individual responsibility, cultural responsibility, and structural responsibility. The Tea Party unites using frame amplification to emphasize the master frame of color blin…
Minutewomen, Victims, and Parasites
This study uses data from 40 interviews and 80 hours of participant observation to examine the discursive and performative (embodied, enacted, and nonverbal) position of women in twenty-first-century militia-nativist organizations, using the case study of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC). The case of theMCDCdemonstrates that the organization produces competing narratives for understanding the role of white and migrant women in U.S. societ…
Floods, Invaders, and Parasites
In the last 20 years, industrialised Western nations have witnessed a marked increase in right-wing social movements and political parties. While the origins and agendas of these groups differ in important ways, all arose in a climate of intensifying globalisation. All arose in the context of a widespread embrace of multiculturalism and cultural diversity. And all are keenly focused on the perceived threats posed by immigration. This paper examin…
Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
Paint the White House black
Floods, Invaders, and Parasites
In the last 20 years, industrialised Western nations have witnessed a marked increase in right-wing social movements and political parties. While the origins and agendas of these groups differ in important ways, all arose in a climate of intensifying globalisation. All arose in the context of a widespread embrace of multiculturalism and cultural diversity. And all are keenly focused on the perceived threats posed by immigration. This paper examin…
The Nature and Nuance of Climate Change Skepticism in the United States
We use data from 33 in-depth interviews conducted with residents in the rural inland Northwestern state of Idaho who self-identify as skeptical about anthropogenic climate change, to examine the nuance within the narratives that skeptics employ to voice their skepticism. Our findings show that the arguments employed by those who are skeptical of climate change do not constitute a clear typology of skepticism or 'skeptics.' Rather, individuals wea…
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum
Climate change skepticism as a psychological coping strategy
This article explores current sociological scholarship on climate skepticism and, drawing on recent literature in social psychology and behavioral science, presents an argument for future research on the relationship between emotion, information aversion, and climate denial. We extrapolate and unite these disconnected bodies of scholarship to argue that strong emotions such as fear may drive climate change skepticism and denial among some adheren…
How Believing Climate Change is a “Hoax” Shapes Climate Skepticism in the United States
Using data gathered from an online survey of residents of the geographic Pacific Northwest (N = 1000) who are skeptical of climate change, we examine the nuances of the belief that climate change constitutes a ‘hoax’. In doing so, we begin to fill an important ‘conspiracy gap’ in extant literature on climate skepticism. Results reveal that, among climate change skeptics, conspiracy adherents are more likely to be male, politically conservative, o…
Right-Wing Ideologies and Ideological Diversity in the Tea Party
This article extends prior research on right-wing ideology broadly and the ideology of the Tea Party specifically. Using data from 45 interviews with Tea Party activists and participant observation at Tea Party meetings, I map five distinct ideologies, used by subsets of the Tea Party Patriots membership: Christian Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Reformed Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Conspiracism
Predictors of Pro-environmental Beliefs, Behaviors, and Policy Support among Climate Change Skeptics
Previous research suggests that climate skeptics may hold a series of environmental concerns and support for environmental policy that, if engaged with, could serve to (in part) mitigate climate change. Using a unique data set from an online survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are uncertain or skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, we explore the diversity of environmental concerns, environmental behaviors, and support fo…
White Racial Identity and Its Link to Support for Far-Right Groups
Prior research indicates that far-right political groups tend to be disproportionately composed of and supported by white people. Drawing off the group identity and developmental literature, we add theoretical clarity to this relationship. We argue that a salient white racial identity motivates people to explore social contexts that affirm the value of being white. Many of these contexts (e.g., conservative media) reinforce and instill beliefs in…
It’s Broader than Just My Work Here
Among science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, the percentage participation of women in engineering has shown significant gains over the past few decades. However, women are still largely absent (or exist in very small numbers) in tenured academic ranks in several engineering sub-fields. In this study we present female and male engineers’ varying understandings of ‘scientific success’ as a potential contributor to women’s re…
It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment
This article uses interview data with people who were once skeptical about climate change but have come to accept climate science to assess the factors that contribute to their shifts in perspectives. Our findings show two trajectories of change for skeptics, depending on the nature of their skepticism. For those who move from actively denying climate change, shifting beliefs about climate change occur via a profound need to reconcile what emerge…
Individual Responsibility, Culture, or State Organized Enslavement? How Tea Party Activists Frame Racial Inequality
This article explores how Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists produce and circulate stories about racial inequality, presenting four distinct frames that reflect nonconformity in the Tea Party's racial narrative. Activists engage with four racial frames: racism denial, individual responsibility, cultural responsibility, and structural responsibility. The Tea Party unites using frame amplification to emphasize the master frame of color blin…
How Media, Information Sources, and Trust Shape Climate Change Denial or Doubt
Climate change skepticism presents an opportunity to examine the role of media, information, and trust on views about controversial scientific topics. Building on extant work on predictors of skepticism and the role of information and trust in shaping skeptical attitudes, in this paper, we examine the relationship between climate change skeptics’ access of media/information sources, trust, and the strength of their skepticism. Specifically, we us…
Adding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Analyses of Climate Change Skepticism
Existing literature on perceptions of climate change skeptics does not include a direct examination of skeptics who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), likely because they make up a small percentage of the U.S. population (1.6%). However, the LDS church is one of the fastest growing religious sects in the nation and world and is acquiring more political power, especially in the western United States. Our research…
Climate skeptics’ identity construction and (Dis)trust in science in the United States
In this paper we argue that climate change skepticism is an opinion-based social identity rooted in subjectively perceived marginality and exclusion from climate science. We use 33 interviews conducted with climate skeptics in Idaho and scholarship on social identity theory to examine identity construction among skeptics. Skeptics construct themselves as open-minded truth-seeking questioners of climate change and social outsiders who face ostraci…
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
Minutewomen, Victims, and Parasites
This study uses data from 40 interviews and 80 hours of participant observation to examine the discursive and performative (embodied, enacted, and nonverbal) position of women in twenty-first-century militia-nativist organizations, using the case study of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC). The case of theMCDCdemonstrates that the organization produces competing narratives for understanding the role of white and migrant women in U.S. societ…
Paint the White House black
Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
Paint the White House black
Floods, Invaders, and Parasites
In the last 20 years, industrialised Western nations have witnessed a marked increase in right-wing social movements and political parties. While the origins and agendas of these groups differ in important ways, all arose in a climate of intensifying globalisation. All arose in the context of a widespread embrace of multiculturalism and cultural diversity. And all are keenly focused on the perceived threats posed by immigration. This paper examin…
Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America
This book provides innovative pedagogy, theory, and strategies for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about gender and sex to today’s students. It
Individual Responsibility, Culture, or State Organized Enslavement? How Tea Party Activists Frame Racial Inequality
This article explores how Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists produce and circulate stories about racial inequality, presenting four distinct frames that reflect nonconformity in the Tea Party's racial narrative. Activists engage with four racial frames: racism denial, individual responsibility, cultural responsibility, and structural responsibility. The Tea Party unites using frame amplification to emphasize the master frame of color blin…
Minutewomen, Victims, and Parasites
This study uses data from 40 interviews and 80 hours of participant observation to examine the discursive and performative (embodied, enacted, and nonverbal) position of women in twenty-first-century militia-nativist organizations, using the case study of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC). The case of theMCDCdemonstrates that the organization produces competing narratives for understanding the role of white and migrant women in U.S. societ…
Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America
Teaching and learning guide for
Climate change skepticism as a psychological coping strategy
This article explores current sociological scholarship on climate skepticism and, drawing on recent literature in social psychology and behavioral science, presents an argument for future research on the relationship between emotion, information aversion, and climate denial. We extrapolate and unite these disconnected bodies of scholarship to argue that strong emotions such as fear may drive climate change skepticism and denial among some adheren…
It’s Broader than Just My Work Here
Among science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, the percentage participation of women in engineering has shown significant gains over the past few decades. However, women are still largely absent (or exist in very small numbers) in tenured academic ranks in several engineering sub-fields. In this study we present female and male engineers’ varying understandings of ‘scientific success’ as a potential contributor to women’s re…
Right-Wing Ideologies and Ideological Diversity in the Tea Party
This article extends prior research on right-wing ideology broadly and the ideology of the Tea Party specifically. Using data from 45 interviews with Tea Party activists and participant observation at Tea Party meetings, I map five distinct ideologies, used by subsets of the Tea Party Patriots membership: Christian Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Reformed Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Conspiracism
Pro-Environmental Views of Climate Skeptics
Using data from interviews with self-identified climate change skeptics, it becomes clear that there is a public misperception about climate change skepticism. Skeptics are concerned about pollution, support environmentally friendly policies, and oppose continued reliance on oil. Current climate change communication is problematic; here, we explore the policies that garner skeptics’ support
Trust/distrust judgments and perceptions of climate science
Using interviews with residents of Idaho (a rural northwest US state) who identify as skeptical of climate change, we examine how skeptics rationalize their doubts about climate science. Skeptics tend to question the reality and human causes of climate change by (1) raising concerns about incentive structures in science that could bias climatology, (2) doubting the accuracy of data and models used by climate scientists, and (3) perceiving some pr…
How Believing Climate Change is a “Hoax” Shapes Climate Skepticism in the United States
Using data gathered from an online survey of residents of the geographic Pacific Northwest (N = 1000) who are skeptical of climate change, we examine the nuances of the belief that climate change constitutes a ‘hoax’. In doing so, we begin to fill an important ‘conspiracy gap’ in extant literature on climate skepticism. Results reveal that, among climate change skeptics, conspiracy adherents are more likely to be male, politically conservative, o…
Predictors of Pro-environmental Beliefs, Behaviors, and Policy Support among Climate Change Skeptics
Previous research suggests that climate skeptics may hold a series of environmental concerns and support for environmental policy that, if engaged with, could serve to (in part) mitigate climate change. Using a unique data set from an online survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are uncertain or skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, we explore the diversity of environmental concerns, environmental behaviors, and support fo…
Climate skeptics’ identity construction and (Dis)trust in science in the United States
In this paper we argue that climate change skepticism is an opinion-based social identity rooted in subjectively perceived marginality and exclusion from climate science. We use 33 interviews conducted with climate skeptics in Idaho and scholarship on social identity theory to examine identity construction among skeptics. Skeptics construct themselves as open-minded truth-seeking questioners of climate change and social outsiders who face ostraci…
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum
The Nature and Nuance of Climate Change Skepticism in the United States
We use data from 33 in-depth interviews conducted with residents in the rural inland Northwestern state of Idaho who self-identify as skeptical about anthropogenic climate change, to examine the nuance within the narratives that skeptics employ to voice their skepticism. Our findings show that the arguments employed by those who are skeptical of climate change do not constitute a clear typology of skepticism or 'skeptics.' Rather, individuals wea…
Adding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Analyses of Climate Change Skepticism
Existing literature on perceptions of climate change skeptics does not include a direct examination of skeptics who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), likely because they make up a small percentage of the U.S. population (1.6%). However, the LDS church is one of the fastest growing religious sects in the nation and world and is acquiring more political power, especially in the western United States. Our research…
It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment
This article uses interview data with people who were once skeptical about climate change but have come to accept climate science to assess the factors that contribute to their shifts in perspectives. Our findings show two trajectories of change for skeptics, depending on the nature of their skepticism. For those who move from actively denying climate change, shifting beliefs about climate change occur via a profound need to reconcile what emerge…
Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrust As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds? Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with self-identified climate c…
How Media, Information Sources, and Trust Shape Climate Change Denial or Doubt
Climate change skepticism presents an opportunity to examine the role of media, information, and trust on views about controversial scientific topics. Building on extant work on predictors of skepticism and the role of information and trust in shaping skeptical attitudes, in this paper, we examine the relationship between climate change skeptics’ access of media/information sources, trust, and the strength of their skepticism. Specifically, we us…
White Racial Identity and Its Link to Support for Far-Right Groups
Prior research indicates that far-right political groups tend to be disproportionately composed of and supported by white people. Drawing off the group identity and developmental literature, we add theoretical clarity to this relationship. We argue that a salient white racial identity motivates people to explore social contexts that affirm the value of being white. Many of these contexts (e.g., conservative media) reinforce and instill beliefs in…
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Far-Right Support Among White Young Adults
The contemporary rise in the far right, marked by strong nationalist sentiments, xenophobia, and derogation of racial outgroups, necessitates an understanding of what drives individuals toward these views. Despite extensive research on personality and demographic factors influencing far-right support, the role of ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) remains under-explored, particularly in white families. Using a national sample of white young adults…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (14 works) · Climate change (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Skepticism (13 works) · Environmental ethics (12 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works)