Portraying the Perils to Polar Bears
The Role of Empathic and Objective Perspective-taking Toward Animals in Climate Change Communication
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| ID | 21192875 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Janet K Swim (0000-0002-3279-1308, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor correspondente), Brittany Bloodhart (0000-0002-4694-546X, George Mason University) |
| Ano | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 446-468 |
| Data de publicação | 2015-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Environmental Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17524032.2014.987304 |
| OpenAlex | W1546330109 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 51 |
| Referências citadas | 38 |
Images of animals, particularly polar bears, harmed by climate change are often used in environmental campaigns, despite warnings of potential reactance and resultant perceived distance from the issue. As an alternative to these emotional appeals, environmental campaigns could encourage an objective (i.e., emotionally detached) perspective on climate change impacts. The present research tests the effects of a message that encourage empathic vs. objective perspectives toward polar bears harmed by climate change on emotions and subsequent support for climate change activism among 241 American adults through an online survey. Contrary to popular warnings, the present research found no reactance toward portraying harm to polar bears from climate change and no benefits of taking an objective perspective toward the polar bears. Instead, portrayals of polar bears harmed by climate change motivated both environmentalists and non-environmentalists to donate money to environmental activist groups when they took an empathic perspective toward the animals. Empathy and hope explain effects for environmentalists and empathy, hope, worry, personal guilt, and boredom explain effects for non-environmentalists
Anxiety · Boredom · Climate change · Empathic concern · Empathy · Harm · Perspective-taking · Worry · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
Relational values and empathy are closely connected
Developing a social psychology of climate change
Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior
Leveraging emotion for sustainable action
How Does Personalization in News Stories Influence Intentions to Help With Drought? Assessing the Influence of State Empathy and Its Antecedents
“Hide Our Heads in the Sand”
Visual metaphors for sustainability
Emotional Support and Opposition for National Environmental Policies in the UK
Pathways from Environmental Ethics to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Insights from Psychology
Using the Health Belief Model to Explore the Impact of Environmental Empathy on Behavioral Intentions to Protect Ocean Health
Emotionalization in the Media Coverage of Honey Bee Colony Losses
An Experimental Test of the Effects of Hurricane News about Human Behavior on Climate-Related Attitudes
An Experimental Study of Climate Change Messages
Emotion as Motive
Changing the World One Meme at a Time
Motivating Children to Become Green Kids
Effects of Responsibility Appeals for Pro-Environmental Ads
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Eliciting empathy and anticipated guilt to promote pro-environmental actions
Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century
Public engagement with climate imagery in a changing digital landscape
Cartographic content analysis of compelling climate change communication
Narrative transportation and emotional responses to storytelling maps
Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad
The intergroup foundations of climate change justice
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I feel and I invest
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OK Boomer
An examination of digital empathy
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Worlds apart, drawn together
Exposure to victim portrayals
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Attitudes towards climate change and scientific stories
Applications of science communication in science diplomacy
My place in the grand scheme of things”
Ecological empathy
Policy Dialogue
Red meat, reactance and political party
Defining a visual metonym
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Emotion and the Psychological Distance of Climate Change
The Role of Repeated Exposure and Message Fatigue in Influencing Willingness to Help Polar Bears and Support Climate Change Mitigation
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse
Using Images of Farmed Animals in Environmental Advocacy
Monkeypox outbreak
The Effects of Stereotypes About Animals' Competence and Warmth on Empathy Choice
Transforming “Apathy Into Movement”
Collective guilt mediates the effect of beliefs about global warming on willingness to engage in mitigation behavior
Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments
A Meta‐Analysis of Research on Protection Motivation Theory
Emerging Insights Into the Nature and Function of Pride
Single-Item Reliability
The Effect of Empathy in Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors
Toward a Theory of Persuasive Hope
Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk
Overall job satisfaction
SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models
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Emotional anchoring and objectification in the media reporting on climate change
Creating a Climate for Change
Self-Confrontation via a Carbon Footprint Calculator Increases Guilt and Support for a Proenvironmental Group
Admonishment and Praise
The Structure of Online Activism
Using Empathy to Improve Intergroup Attitudes and Relations
When Less is More
Hope and climate change
An iconic approach for representing climate change
New Environmental Theories
Information function of empathic emotion
Public understanding of climate change in the United States
The psychological impacts of global climate change
Psychology's contributions to understanding and addressing global climate change
Development and validation of the State Hope Scale
Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion
Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior
Fear Won't Do It
Risk as feelings
Boredom
| Obras citantes distintas | 51 |
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| Citações por ano | 4,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 49 |