Connie Roser-Renouf
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connie Roser-Renouf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connie |
| FAMILY NAME | Roser-Renouf |
| SIGNATURE | ROSER-RENOUF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1110-1187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Information Processing and Response Among Global Warming’s Six Americas
This study tests the proposition that audiences with different beliefs about climate change process the same information differently, and discusses how to communicate climate change more effectively, given these processing differences. In a message-testing experiment, audience segments with varying levels of climate change concern, issue involvement, and skepticism viewed short videos about the issue. Greater concern fostered higher attention and…
The “Think-and-do Tank” Model
Since its founding in 2007, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication has pursued an approach to climate science communication that we call a “think-and-do tank” model. The “thinking” element involves strategic communication research intended to illuminate strategies to improve public engagement with climate change that, if applied at scale, will cultivate public and political will for climate solutions. The “doing” elem…
Global Warming’s Six Americas
Climate Silence on the Web Sites of US Health Departments
Climate Silence on the Web Sites of US Health Departments Edward Maibach PhD, MPH, Howard Frumkin MD, DrPH, and Connie Roser-Renouf PhD Affiliation Edward Maibach and Connie Roser-Renouf are with the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Howard Frumkin is with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle.CopyRightCorrespondence …
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
The severe threats posed by anthropogenic climate change make hope and a sense of efficacy key ingredients in effective climate communication. Yet little is known about what makes individuals hopeful – or in contrast, doubtful – that humanity can reduce the problem, or how hope relates to activism. This study uses mixed-methods with two national surveys to 1) identify what makes people hopeful or doubtful that humanity will address the problem (S…
Climate Change in the American Mind
iStock/yangphotoClimate change is a major threat to ecosystems and people around the world.1 Risk analysts, including the U.S. Department of Defense, rank climate change as one of the most serious ...
Global Warming’s “Six Americas Short Survey”
Audience segmentation has long been used in marketing, public health, and communication, and is now becoming an important tool in the environmental domain as well. Global Warming's Six Americas is a well-established segmentation of Americans based on their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. The original Six Americas model requires a 36 question-screener and although there is increasing interest in using these segments to guide educ…
The Critical Roles of Health Professionals in Climate Change Prevention and Preparedness
Climate change is a burgeoning public health concern, with implications for chronic health conditions; nutrition and food security; food-, water-, and vector-borne diseases; and social disruption, injuries, displacement, and death associated with extreme weather.1 Climate change is contributing to health disparities in the United States by having a disproportionate impact on low-income individuals, some communities of color, and those with higher…
The genesis of climate change activism
Climate change activism has been uncommon in the U.S., but a growing national movement is pressing for a political response. To assess the cognitive and affective precursors of climate activism, we hypothesize and test a two-stage information-processing model based on social cognitive theory. In stage 1, expectations about climate change outcomes and perceived collective efficacy to mitigate the threat are hypothesized to influence affective issu…
Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust
Nationally representative surveys conducted in 2008 and 2010 found significant declines in Americans' climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and trust in scientists. Drawing upon the Social Amplification of Risk Framework, this analysis empirically examines the impact of "climategate"-an international scandal resulting from the unauthorized release of emails between climate scientists in England and United States. The results demonstrate that …
The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality of global warming
Attention to Science/Environment News Positively Predicts and Attention to Political News Negatively Predicts Global Warming Risk Perceptions and Policy Support
Contemporary science and environmental news coverage of global warming increasingly portrays scientific consensus. Political news coverage of global warming, however, typically portrays controversy. We hypothesize that attention to science and environmental news is associated with beliefs more consistent with the global warming science and higher risk perceptions, and that the opposite is true of attention to political news. Furthermore, we hypot…
Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement
Climate on Cable
This study examines climate change coverage on the three major cable news channels and assesses the relationship between viewership of these channels and beliefs about global warming. Evidence from a content analysis of climate change coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during 2007 and 2008 demonstrates that Fox takes a more dismissive tone toward climate change than CNN and MSNBC. Fox also interviews a greater ratio of climate change doubters t…
Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk
We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, and if so, are they seen as current or future risks? Whose health does the public think will be harmed? In what specific ways does the public believe climate change will harm human health? When asked directly about the potential i…
Communication and Marketing As Climate Change–Intervention Assets
Climate on Cable
This study examines climate change coverage on the three major cable news channels and assesses the relationship between viewership of these channels and beliefs about global warming. Evidence from a content analysis of climate change coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during 2007 and 2008 demonstrates that Fox takes a more dismissive tone toward climate change than CNN and MSNBC. Fox also interviews a greater ratio of climate change doubters t…
Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust
Nationally representative surveys conducted in 2008 and 2010 found significant declines in Americans' climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and trust in scientists. Drawing upon the Social Amplification of Risk Framework, this analysis empirically examines the impact of "climategate"-an international scandal resulting from the unauthorized release of emails between climate scientists in England and United States. The results demonstrate that …
Communication and Marketing As Climate Change–Intervention Assets
Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk
We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, and if so, are they seen as current or future risks? Whose health does the public think will be harmed? In what specific ways does the public believe climate change will harm human health? When asked directly about the potential i…
Attention to Science/Environment News Positively Predicts and Attention to Political News Negatively Predicts Global Warming Risk Perceptions and Policy Support
Contemporary science and environmental news coverage of global warming increasingly portrays scientific consensus. Political news coverage of global warming, however, typically portrays controversy. We hypothesize that attention to science and environmental news is associated with beliefs more consistent with the global warming science and higher risk perceptions, and that the opposite is true of attention to political news. Furthermore, we hypot…
Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement
Climate on Cable
This study examines climate change coverage on the three major cable news channels and assesses the relationship between viewership of these channels and beliefs about global warming. Evidence from a content analysis of climate change coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during 2007 and 2008 demonstrates that Fox takes a more dismissive tone toward climate change than CNN and MSNBC. Fox also interviews a greater ratio of climate change doubters t…
The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality of global warming
Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust
Nationally representative surveys conducted in 2008 and 2010 found significant declines in Americans' climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and trust in scientists. Drawing upon the Social Amplification of Risk Framework, this analysis empirically examines the impact of "climategate"-an international scandal resulting from the unauthorized release of emails between climate scientists in England and United States. The results demonstrate that …
The genesis of climate change activism
Climate change activism has been uncommon in the U.S., but a growing national movement is pressing for a political response. To assess the cognitive and affective precursors of climate activism, we hypothesize and test a two-stage information-processing model based on social cognitive theory. In stage 1, expectations about climate change outcomes and perceived collective efficacy to mitigate the threat are hypothesized to influence affective issu…
Global Warming’s “Six Americas Short Survey”
Audience segmentation has long been used in marketing, public health, and communication, and is now becoming an important tool in the environmental domain as well. Global Warming's Six Americas is a well-established segmentation of Americans based on their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. The original Six Americas model requires a 36 question-screener and although there is increasing interest in using these segments to guide educ…
The Critical Roles of Health Professionals in Climate Change Prevention and Preparedness
Climate change is a burgeoning public health concern, with implications for chronic health conditions; nutrition and food security; food-, water-, and vector-borne diseases; and social disruption, injuries, displacement, and death associated with extreme weather.1 Climate change is contributing to health disparities in the United States by having a disproportionate impact on low-income individuals, some communities of color, and those with higher…
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
The severe threats posed by anthropogenic climate change make hope and a sense of efficacy key ingredients in effective climate communication. Yet little is known about what makes individuals hopeful – or in contrast, doubtful – that humanity can reduce the problem, or how hope relates to activism. This study uses mixed-methods with two national surveys to 1) identify what makes people hopeful or doubtful that humanity will address the problem (S…
Climate Change in the American Mind
iStock/yangphotoClimate change is a major threat to ecosystems and people around the world.1 Risk analysts, including the U.S. Department of Defense, rank climate change as one of the most serious ...
Climate Silence on the Web Sites of US Health Departments
Climate Silence on the Web Sites of US Health Departments Edward Maibach PhD, MPH, Howard Frumkin MD, DrPH, and Connie Roser-Renouf PhD Affiliation Edward Maibach and Connie Roser-Renouf are with the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Howard Frumkin is with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle.CopyRightCorrespondence …
Global Warming’s Six Americas
The “Think-and-do Tank” Model
Since its founding in 2007, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication has pursued an approach to climate science communication that we call a “think-and-do tank” model. The “thinking” element involves strategic communication research intended to illuminate strategies to improve public engagement with climate change that, if applied at scale, will cultivate public and political will for climate solutions. The “doing” elem…
Information Processing and Response Among Global Warming’s Six Americas
This study tests the proposition that audiences with different beliefs about climate change process the same information differently, and discusses how to communicate climate change more effectively, given these processing differences. In a message-testing experiment, audience segments with varying levels of climate change concern, issue involvement, and skepticism viewed short videos about the issue. Greater concern fostered higher attention and…
Climate Change Communication and Perception (15 works) · Climate change (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Global warming (8 works) · Perception (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)