Emily Diamond
Biographic Data
| ID | 758731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Diamond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Diamond |
| SIGNATURE | DIAMOND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5643-4842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating the ethical dimensions of the science-policy interface
Guidance for researchers seeking to contribute science to the policymaking process typically focuses on technical training, such as how to write op-eds and policy briefs. An under-discussed but vital additional consideration is how to navigate the ethical challenges that arise at the intersection of research and policymaking. In their edited volume, Epstein and Kaplan feature case studies grounded in research experience to identify, describe, and…
Rural–urban differences in U.S. foster care, 2019–2021
Public Communication of Climate and Justice
The intersection of public communication, climate change, and justice constitutes a nascent but growing interdisciplinary field of vital importance as climate change, driven largely by consumption patterns in high‐income counties, disproportionately affects communities with limited adaptive capacity, raising profound justice concerns. This scoping review delves into the emerging domain of public communication regarding climate and justice and see…
Framing the Wind
Media coverage shapes public acceptance of renewable energy, but how offshore wind is being communicated to the public, particularly in the United States, is understudied. This study investigates the framing approaches of media coverage of the first two large-scale offshore wind projects in the U.S. We find that most coverage is local, with media coverage increasing during debates around permitting, construction, and community impacts. Emphasis f…
Does similarity matter? A scoping review of perceived and actual similarity in romantic couples
This scoping review seeks to integrate disparate research on the role of similarity in romantic relationships, a topic of long-standing interest among researchers and popular culture alike. We offer a synthesis of 339 articles measuring similarity and relationship outcomes in established romantic relationships. We report trends in extant research regarding domains of similarity, methods of calculating similarity, and sample characteristics. Our f…
Perceived misinformation in offshore wind
Communication silos
Beyond formal ocean education
Communicating Pollutants That Threaten Tribal Identities
Indigenous communities that rely on the consumption of local fish and shellfish may have elevated exposures to environmental contaminants, such as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Conventional public health communication that focuses on reducing consumption can conflict with cultural identities tied to harvesting local fish. Through a series of focus groups and interviews ( n = 25) and a community-wide survey ( n = 155) among…
Toward a science of relationship forecasting
Given the importance of high-quality romantic relationships for health and well-being, researchers have spent decades examining factors that promote them. In doing so, they have identified factors that influence the formation and maintenance of relationships on average, in the moment, and for certain populations. However, making more targeted predictions for particular groups of people or even specific couples-with a meaningful degree of accuracy…
Legitimacy through representation? Media sources and discourses of offshore wind development
Introduction The choice of which individuals and entities to include as sources in newspaper articles is an important decision for journalists, in large part because they can shape how readers understand the issue and which arguments become most salient. This is particularly important for issues that are relatively new or unknown to readers. The growing topic of offshore wind in the United States is a prime example of an issue that many people ar…
Angler’s sense of place as an indicator for perceived vulnerability to shifting stock distributions
Taking stock
Fisheries management in the United States requires managing the actions of both commercial and recreational fishers in order to maintain its efficacy. To maintain sustainable fisheries, recreational fisheries management relies on individuals' ethical behaviors and assumptions of their compliance with regulations. This mixed methods study assessed Rhode Island recreational anglers' conservation ethic in relation to their coastal identities. The re…
Understanding Rural Identities and Environmental Policy Attitudes in America
Attitudinal differences between urban and rural voters in America have been in the spotlight in recent years and engaging rural populations politically has been growing in importance, particularly since the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, social and geographic sorting is increasing the salience of a rural identity that drives distinct policy preferences. While recent research has examined how rural identities drive social and economic poli…
The Impact of Message Valence on Climate Change Attitudes
Media framing plays an important role in shaping attitudes and behaviors toward climate change, but the literature remains split on whether positive or negative frames are more effective. Additionally, few studies have investigated the effects that message exposure may have on audiences long-term. This study used a longitudinal experiment to investigate how repeated exposure to negatively- or positively-valenced news articles about climate change…
Conservative conservationists
Identities – how individuals think about themselves in the social world – are powerful drivers of political attitudes and behaviors. On highly polarizing issues such as climate change, political identities are powerful predictors of attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences. However, other, non-partisan identities are also relevant to climate change attitudes, particularly when the identity is threatened by climate change. What happens when an…
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger
Environmental policy advocates are increasingly proposing ‘bundled’ clean energy policies to combat climate change while also creating jobs and transforming the economy. While such strategies may broaden the appeal of climate policies, these broad constituencies create challenges for policy communicators – how do messages about different aspects of the policy, coming from different messenger groups, influence public support for clean energy polic…
The Influence of Identity Salience on Framing Effectiveness
Efforts to influence attitudes on highly polarizing issues, such as climate change, often fail because individuals interpret political messages through the lens of their partisan identities. However, shifting the identity lens through which an individual interprets a message may result in more effective political communication. Through a preregistered survey experiment (n = 978), this study tested how priming either a partisan or a nonpartisan (p…
Does providing scientific information affect climate change and GMO policy preferences of the mass public? Insights from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
The use of information provision has been criticized as an ineffective way to increase support for evidence-based environmental policies, but it remains a dominant strategy among policy communicators. Using a survey experiment on climate change and genetically modified food (GMO) policy preferences in Germany and the United States (N = 3,000 total), we investigate how information provision shapes environmental policy attitudes and whether this ef…
Beyond Political Ideology
Understanding public distrust of science is both theoretically and practically important. While previous research has focused on the association between political ideology and trust in science, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study demonstrates that two dimensions of political ideology—attitudes towards governments and corporations—can more precisely predict trust in science across issues. Using a survey in the United States and Ger…
Understanding Rural Identities and Environmental Policy Attitudes in America
Attitudinal differences between urban and rural voters in America have been in the spotlight in recent years and engaging rural populations politically has been growing in importance, particularly since the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, social and geographic sorting is increasing the salience of a rural identity that drives distinct policy preferences. While recent research has examined how rural identities drive social and economic poli…
The Influence of Identity Salience on Framing Effectiveness
Efforts to influence attitudes on highly polarizing issues, such as climate change, often fail because individuals interpret political messages through the lens of their partisan identities. However, shifting the identity lens through which an individual interprets a message may result in more effective political communication. Through a preregistered survey experiment (n = 978), this study tested how priming either a partisan or a nonpartisan (p…
Beyond Political Ideology
Understanding public distrust of science is both theoretically and practically important. While previous research has focused on the association between political ideology and trust in science, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study demonstrates that two dimensions of political ideology—attitudes towards governments and corporations—can more precisely predict trust in science across issues. Using a survey in the United States and Ger…
Does providing scientific information affect climate change and GMO policy preferences of the mass public? Insights from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
The use of information provision has been criticized as an ineffective way to increase support for evidence-based environmental policies, but it remains a dominant strategy among policy communicators. Using a survey experiment on climate change and genetically modified food (GMO) policy preferences in Germany and the United States (N = 3,000 total), we investigate how information provision shapes environmental policy attitudes and whether this ef…
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger
Environmental policy advocates are increasingly proposing ‘bundled’ clean energy policies to combat climate change while also creating jobs and transforming the economy. While such strategies may broaden the appeal of climate policies, these broad constituencies create challenges for policy communicators – how do messages about different aspects of the policy, coming from different messenger groups, influence public support for clean energy polic…
Perceived misinformation in offshore wind
Communication silos
Beyond Political Ideology
Understanding public distrust of science is both theoretically and practically important. While previous research has focused on the association between political ideology and trust in science, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study demonstrates that two dimensions of political ideology—attitudes towards governments and corporations—can more precisely predict trust in science across issues. Using a survey in the United States and Ger…
The Influence of Identity Salience on Framing Effectiveness
Efforts to influence attitudes on highly polarizing issues, such as climate change, often fail because individuals interpret political messages through the lens of their partisan identities. However, shifting the identity lens through which an individual interprets a message may result in more effective political communication. Through a preregistered survey experiment (n = 978), this study tested how priming either a partisan or a nonpartisan (p…
Does providing scientific information affect climate change and GMO policy preferences of the mass public? Insights from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
The use of information provision has been criticized as an ineffective way to increase support for evidence-based environmental policies, but it remains a dominant strategy among policy communicators. Using a survey experiment on climate change and genetically modified food (GMO) policy preferences in Germany and the United States (N = 3,000 total), we investigate how information provision shapes environmental policy attitudes and whether this ef…
The Impact of Message Valence on Climate Change Attitudes
Media framing plays an important role in shaping attitudes and behaviors toward climate change, but the literature remains split on whether positive or negative frames are more effective. Additionally, few studies have investigated the effects that message exposure may have on audiences long-term. This study used a longitudinal experiment to investigate how repeated exposure to negatively- or positively-valenced news articles about climate change…
Conservative conservationists
Identities – how individuals think about themselves in the social world – are powerful drivers of political attitudes and behaviors. On highly polarizing issues such as climate change, political identities are powerful predictors of attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences. However, other, non-partisan identities are also relevant to climate change attitudes, particularly when the identity is threatened by climate change. What happens when an…
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger
Environmental policy advocates are increasingly proposing ‘bundled’ clean energy policies to combat climate change while also creating jobs and transforming the economy. While such strategies may broaden the appeal of climate policies, these broad constituencies create challenges for policy communicators – how do messages about different aspects of the policy, coming from different messenger groups, influence public support for clean energy polic…
Understanding Rural Identities and Environmental Policy Attitudes in America
Attitudinal differences between urban and rural voters in America have been in the spotlight in recent years and engaging rural populations politically has been growing in importance, particularly since the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, social and geographic sorting is increasing the salience of a rural identity that drives distinct policy preferences. While recent research has examined how rural identities drive social and economic poli…
Legitimacy through representation? Media sources and discourses of offshore wind development
Introduction The choice of which individuals and entities to include as sources in newspaper articles is an important decision for journalists, in large part because they can shape how readers understand the issue and which arguments become most salient. This is particularly important for issues that are relatively new or unknown to readers. The growing topic of offshore wind in the United States is a prime example of an issue that many people ar…
Angler’s sense of place as an indicator for perceived vulnerability to shifting stock distributions
Taking stock
Fisheries management in the United States requires managing the actions of both commercial and recreational fishers in order to maintain its efficacy. To maintain sustainable fisheries, recreational fisheries management relies on individuals' ethical behaviors and assumptions of their compliance with regulations. This mixed methods study assessed Rhode Island recreational anglers' conservation ethic in relation to their coastal identities. The re…
Rural–urban differences in U.S. foster care, 2019–2021
Public Communication of Climate and Justice
The intersection of public communication, climate change, and justice constitutes a nascent but growing interdisciplinary field of vital importance as climate change, driven largely by consumption patterns in high‐income counties, disproportionately affects communities with limited adaptive capacity, raising profound justice concerns. This scoping review delves into the emerging domain of public communication regarding climate and justice and see…
Framing the Wind
Media coverage shapes public acceptance of renewable energy, but how offshore wind is being communicated to the public, particularly in the United States, is understudied. This study investigates the framing approaches of media coverage of the first two large-scale offshore wind projects in the U.S. We find that most coverage is local, with media coverage increasing during debates around permitting, construction, and community impacts. Emphasis f…
Does similarity matter? A scoping review of perceived and actual similarity in romantic couples
This scoping review seeks to integrate disparate research on the role of similarity in romantic relationships, a topic of long-standing interest among researchers and popular culture alike. We offer a synthesis of 339 articles measuring similarity and relationship outcomes in established romantic relationships. We report trends in extant research regarding domains of similarity, methods of calculating similarity, and sample characteristics. Our f…
Perceived misinformation in offshore wind
Communication silos
Beyond formal ocean education
Communicating Pollutants That Threaten Tribal Identities
Indigenous communities that rely on the consumption of local fish and shellfish may have elevated exposures to environmental contaminants, such as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Conventional public health communication that focuses on reducing consumption can conflict with cultural identities tied to harvesting local fish. Through a series of focus groups and interviews ( n = 25) and a community-wide survey ( n = 155) among…
Toward a science of relationship forecasting
Given the importance of high-quality romantic relationships for health and well-being, researchers have spent decades examining factors that promote them. In doing so, they have identified factors that influence the formation and maintenance of relationships on average, in the moment, and for certain populations. However, making more targeted predictions for particular groups of people or even specific couples-with a meaningful degree of accuracy…
Navigating the ethical dimensions of the science-policy interface
Guidance for researchers seeking to contribute science to the policymaking process typically focuses on technical training, such as how to write op-eds and policy briefs. An under-discussed but vital additional consideration is how to navigate the ethical challenges that arise at the intersection of research and policymaking. In their edited volume, Epstein and Kaplan feature case studies grounded in research experience to identify, describe, and…
Climate Change Communication and Perception (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works)