Hans-Rüdiger Pfister
Biographic Data
| ID | 6099676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Rüdiger Pfister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Rüdiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfister |
| SIGNATURE | PFISTER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Simple measures and complex structures
The cognitive representation of genetic engineering
S.295-316
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…
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…
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…
Simple measures and complex structures
The cognitive representation of genetic engineering
S.295-316
Simple measures and complex structures
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…
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…
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…
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…
Psychology (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Risk perception (3 works)