Gisela Böhm
Biographic Data
| ID | 179202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gisela Böhm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gisela |
| FAMILY NAME | Böhm |
| SIGNATURE | BÖHM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5324-6990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Flight shame under the scope
Emotions associated with the intention to purchase sustainable food
This study investigates the role of emotions in predicting sustainable food purchase intentions. A national representative sample from Norway (N = 785) was randomly assigned to rate their emotional response to specific food categories: livestock, capture fishery, aquaculture, and hunting. Emotional responses to each food category were of moderate intensity but there were no significant differences between specific animal-sourced foods. Findings f…
Exploring climate change discourses on the internet
This study examines online discourses about climate change using automated text analysis. Samples of web contributions from various sources, such as blogs, online newspaper articles, readers' comments, tweets, and others, were collected in 2013, 2019, and 2023. The major themes people talk about when discussing climate change on the internet were identified using structural topic modeling. The study also explored how people discuss climate change…
Mapping perceptions of energy transition pathways
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 students in Norway ( N = 106) and Germany ( N = 142). Participants selected from a set of 15 motives those which they considered to be strongly associated with each of 25 pathways, including examples such as public transportation and…
Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health
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 the existential threat posed by the climate crisis. Considering the growing levels of climate change awareness across the world, negative emotions like anxiety and worry about climate-related risks are a potentially pervasive con…
E-privacy concerns
Although the ubiquitous use of smartphones and social media poses serious risks to the privacy of users, research is sparse regarding how users perceive these risks. We present a study investigating the perception of e-privacy risks, assuming that risk perception depends on context and situation, and employing a facet theory approach to define and analyze privacy risk perceptions. Specifically, we define three facets that characterize situations …
When and why do people experience flight shame
Investigates individual reports of flight shame in different travel situations. • Flight shame was more pronounced when going on holiday, than for visiting family and friends, or travelling for work. • Flight shame was consistently associated with personal norms and injunctive norms, but not with descriptive norms
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe
Climate concerned but anti-nuclear
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions
There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including climate concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support and take climate action. This paper examines how individual-level climate perceptions correspond to a country's contribution to climate change and its ability to develop climate policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 European countries, n = 44,387) was used to explore how natio…
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
The emotional engagement of climate experts is related to their climate change perceptions and coping strategies
The study aimed to reveal the role of emotions in Lithuanian climate experts’ perceptions of climate change (i.e., their beliefs about the causes and risk perceptions of climate change) and fill the gap in scientific knowledge about the coping strategies that climate experts tend to employ in order to deal with climate-change-related emotions. To investigate climate experts’ emotional reactions to climate change, we applied a four-factor model co…
When worry about climate change leads to climate action
Scientific truth or debate
Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus is a major factor predicting public belief that climate change is anthropogenic. However, individuals may hold different models of science, potentially affecting their interpretation of scientific consensus. Using representative sur…
Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants
Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change
This paper examines consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change across four European countries. Data from nationally representative samples (each n > 1000) were analysed in order to explore the relative importance of consequences versus morality in explaining public support for different climate policies. Most respondents expected climate change to have largely negative consequences for their respective country. Climate change…
When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology
Some past events incite more wonder about their causes than do others. For example, negative events require explanation more than positive events. We review social psychologists’ theoretical and empirical insights on what kinds of past events “beg explanation.” We draw on attribution theory that became popular among psychologists from the 1960s onward, on research on counterfactual reasoning, and on conversational and discursive critiques of attr…
Sustainable Consumption of Groceries
This study investigated relations between consumers’ sustainable development self‐efficacy, attitudes, norms and intentions to purchase sustainable groceries such as ecological and fair trade foods. Demographic variables were also investigated. Attitudes and norms were positively associated with intentions to purchase sustainable products. The importance of different types of attitudes and norms for explaining sustainable consumption depended on …
The perceiver’s social role and a risk’s causal structure as determinants of environmental risk evaluation
We present a dual-process risk perception model that integrates cognitive and emotional as well as consequentialist and deontological components by distinguishing between two modes of evaluative processing: (a) a consequentialist evaluation that focuses on potential consequences and (b) a deontological evaluation that focuses on moral values. Each of these two modes is assumed to trigger specific cognitive evaluations, specific emotions, and spec…
Dispute and morality in the perception of societal risks
The psychometric paradigm has identified two classic dimensions, dread and unknown risk, structuring the perception of risks. We propose that disputed risk and morality are two additional dimensions that are relevant to describe the cognitive representation of societal risks. Disputed risk captures two aspects of a societal risk: first, that consensus about scientific evidence is low, and second, that the public debate about the risk issue is hig…
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Consequences, morality, and time in environmental risk evaluation
Environmental risks pose a serious problem to individual and societal decision‐making, and the public debate is often characterized by a conflict between morally‐principled and technically oriented points of view. Drawing on previous work of Böhm and Pfister (), we propose a model on how environmental risks are cognitively represented and how risks are evaluated. The model suggests two evaluative pathways, evaluations of consequences and evaluati…
Environmental Risks
Environmental risks -- perception, evaluation and management : introduction / Gisela Böhm ... [et al.] -- Mental representation of global environmental risks / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister -- Communicating health risks of global climate change / Ann Bostrom and Baruch Fischhoff -- Environmental risk in the media : modelling the reactions of the audience / Josef Nerb, Hans Spada and Katja Lay -- Risk, responsibility and recreancy / William…
Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants
When worry about climate change leads to climate action
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Consequences, morality, and time in environmental risk evaluation
Environmental risks pose a serious problem to individual and societal decision‐making, and the public debate is often characterized by a conflict between morally‐principled and technically oriented points of view. Drawing on previous work of Böhm and Pfister (), we propose a model on how environmental risks are cognitively represented and how risks are evaluated. The model suggests two evaluative pathways, evaluations of consequences and evaluati…
Sustainable Consumption of Groceries
This study investigated relations between consumers’ sustainable development self‐efficacy, attitudes, norms and intentions to purchase sustainable groceries such as ecological and fair trade foods. Demographic variables were also investigated. Attitudes and norms were positively associated with intentions to purchase sustainable products. The importance of different types of attitudes and norms for explaining sustainable consumption depended on …
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology
Some past events incite more wonder about their causes than do others. For example, negative events require explanation more than positive events. We review social psychologists’ theoretical and empirical insights on what kinds of past events “beg explanation.” We draw on attribution theory that became popular among psychologists from the 1960s onward, on research on counterfactual reasoning, and on conversational and discursive critiques of attr…
When and why do people experience flight shame
Investigates individual reports of flight shame in different travel situations. • Flight shame was more pronounced when going on holiday, than for visiting family and friends, or travelling for work. • Flight shame was consistently associated with personal norms and injunctive norms, but not with descriptive norms
Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change
This paper examines consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change across four European countries. Data from nationally representative samples (each n > 1000) were analysed in order to explore the relative importance of consequences versus morality in explaining public support for different climate policies. Most respondents expected climate change to have largely negative consequences for their respective country. Climate change…
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
The perceiver’s social role and a risk’s causal structure as determinants of environmental risk evaluation
We present a dual-process risk perception model that integrates cognitive and emotional as well as consequentialist and deontological components by distinguishing between two modes of evaluative processing: (a) a consequentialist evaluation that focuses on potential consequences and (b) a deontological evaluation that focuses on moral values. Each of these two modes is assumed to trigger specific cognitive evaluations, specific emotions, and spec…
Climate concerned but anti-nuclear
Dispute and morality in the perception of societal risks
The psychometric paradigm has identified two classic dimensions, dread and unknown risk, structuring the perception of risks. We propose that disputed risk and morality are two additional dimensions that are relevant to describe the cognitive representation of societal risks. Disputed risk captures two aspects of a societal risk: first, that consensus about scientific evidence is low, and second, that the public debate about the risk issue is hig…
Exploring climate change discourses on the internet
This study examines online discourses about climate change using automated text analysis. Samples of web contributions from various sources, such as blogs, online newspaper articles, readers' comments, tweets, and others, were collected in 2013, 2019, and 2023. The major themes people talk about when discussing climate change on the internet were identified using structural topic modeling. The study also explored how people discuss climate change…
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions
There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including climate concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support and take climate action. This paper examines how individual-level climate perceptions correspond to a country's contribution to climate change and its ability to develop climate policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 European countries, n = 44,387) was used to explore how natio…
The emotional engagement of climate experts is related to their climate change perceptions and coping strategies
The study aimed to reveal the role of emotions in Lithuanian climate experts’ perceptions of climate change (i.e., their beliefs about the causes and risk perceptions of climate change) and fill the gap in scientific knowledge about the coping strategies that climate experts tend to employ in order to deal with climate-change-related emotions. To investigate climate experts’ emotional reactions to climate change, we applied a four-factor model co…
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
The cognitive representation of genetic engineering
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Environmental Risks
Environmental risks -- perception, evaluation and management : introduction / Gisela Böhm ... [et al.] -- Mental representation of global environmental risks / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister -- Communicating health risks of global climate change / Ann Bostrom and Baruch Fischhoff -- Environmental risk in the media : modelling the reactions of the audience / Josef Nerb, Hans Spada and Katja Lay -- Risk, responsibility and recreancy / William…
Consequences, morality, and time in environmental risk evaluation
Environmental risks pose a serious problem to individual and societal decision‐making, and the public debate is often characterized by a conflict between morally‐principled and technically oriented points of view. Drawing on previous work of Böhm and Pfister (), we propose a model on how environmental risks are cognitively represented and how risks are evaluated. The model suggests two evaluative pathways, evaluations of consequences and evaluati…
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
The perceiver’s social role and a risk’s causal structure as determinants of environmental risk evaluation
We present a dual-process risk perception model that integrates cognitive and emotional as well as consequentialist and deontological components by distinguishing between two modes of evaluative processing: (a) a consequentialist evaluation that focuses on potential consequences and (b) a deontological evaluation that focuses on moral values. Each of these two modes is assumed to trigger specific cognitive evaluations, specific emotions, and spec…
Dispute and morality in the perception of societal risks
The psychometric paradigm has identified two classic dimensions, dread and unknown risk, structuring the perception of risks. We propose that disputed risk and morality are two additional dimensions that are relevant to describe the cognitive representation of societal risks. Disputed risk captures two aspects of a societal risk: first, that consensus about scientific evidence is low, and second, that the public debate about the risk issue is hig…
Sustainable Consumption of Groceries
This study investigated relations between consumers’ sustainable development self‐efficacy, attitudes, norms and intentions to purchase sustainable groceries such as ecological and fair trade foods. Demographic variables were also investigated. Attitudes and norms were positively associated with intentions to purchase sustainable products. The importance of different types of attitudes and norms for explaining sustainable consumption depended on …
When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology
Some past events incite more wonder about their causes than do others. For example, negative events require explanation more than positive events. We review social psychologists’ theoretical and empirical insights on what kinds of past events “beg explanation.” We draw on attribution theory that became popular among psychologists from the 1960s onward, on research on counterfactual reasoning, and on conversational and discursive critiques of attr…
Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change
This paper examines consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change across four European countries. Data from nationally representative samples (each n > 1000) were analysed in order to explore the relative importance of consequences versus morality in explaining public support for different climate policies. Most respondents expected climate change to have largely negative consequences for their respective country. Climate change…
Scientific truth or debate
Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus is a major factor predicting public belief that climate change is anthropogenic. However, individuals may hold different models of science, potentially affecting their interpretation of scientific consensus. Using representative sur…
Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
The emotional engagement of climate experts is related to their climate change perceptions and coping strategies
The study aimed to reveal the role of emotions in Lithuanian climate experts’ perceptions of climate change (i.e., their beliefs about the causes and risk perceptions of climate change) and fill the gap in scientific knowledge about the coping strategies that climate experts tend to employ in order to deal with climate-change-related emotions. To investigate climate experts’ emotional reactions to climate change, we applied a four-factor model co…
When worry about climate change leads to climate action
Climate concerned but anti-nuclear
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions
There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including climate concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support and take climate action. This paper examines how individual-level climate perceptions correspond to a country's contribution to climate change and its ability to develop climate policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 European countries, n = 44,387) was used to explore how natio…
When and why do people experience flight shame
Investigates individual reports of flight shame in different travel situations. • Flight shame was more pronounced when going on holiday, than for visiting family and friends, or travelling for work. • Flight shame was consistently associated with personal norms and injunctive norms, but not with descriptive norms
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe
Mapping perceptions of energy transition pathways
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 students in Norway ( N = 106) and Germany ( N = 142). Participants selected from a set of 15 motives those which they considered to be strongly associated with each of 25 pathways, including examples such as public transportation and…
Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health
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 the existential threat posed by the climate crisis. Considering the growing levels of climate change awareness across the world, negative emotions like anxiety and worry about climate-related risks are a potentially pervasive con…
E-privacy concerns
Although the ubiquitous use of smartphones and social media poses serious risks to the privacy of users, research is sparse regarding how users perceive these risks. We present a study investigating the perception of e-privacy risks, assuming that risk perception depends on context and situation, and employing a facet theory approach to define and analyze privacy risk perceptions. Specifically, we define three facets that characterize situations …
Exploring climate change discourses on the internet
This study examines online discourses about climate change using automated text analysis. Samples of web contributions from various sources, such as blogs, online newspaper articles, readers' comments, tweets, and others, were collected in 2013, 2019, and 2023. The major themes people talk about when discussing climate change on the internet were identified using structural topic modeling. The study also explored how people discuss climate change…
Emotions associated with the intention to purchase sustainable food
This study investigates the role of emotions in predicting sustainable food purchase intentions. A national representative sample from Norway (N = 785) was randomly assigned to rate their emotional response to specific food categories: livestock, capture fishery, aquaculture, and hunting. Emotional responses to each food category were of moderate intensity but there were no significant differences between specific animal-sourced foods. Findings f…
Psychology (21 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Climate change (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (11 works) · Perception (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Risk Perception and Management (9 works)