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Clarke, Edward J. R., Klas, Anna, Stevenson, Joshua, Kothe, E. J. |
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Environmental Communication; May2022, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p289-295, 7p, 2 Charts |
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Climate change is a politically-polarized issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver's "A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate" clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarized or depolarized a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioral intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one not stated, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver's climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarization on mitigation policy support (or increase it), relative to a control, it resulted in larger polarization on support for adaptation policies, and higher climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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