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Skepticism about climate change persists in the general public. Psychologists disagree on whether dire messages (emphasizing negative consequences) and solvable messages (emphasizing potential solutions) interact to increase or reduce belief in climate change, and whether the effects depend on recipients’ psychological dispositions. A highly cited paper in this literature (Feinberg & Willer, 2011) found that dire and solvable messages decreased, whereas dire and unsolvable messages increased climate change skepticism among people with a strong – but not among those with a weak – belief in a just world. However, the validity of these influential results needs to be reassessed due to the underpowered nature of the original studies and shifting public opinion about climate change. In the current study, we propose several highly powered (total n = 6860) conceptual and direct replications of Feinberg and Willer (2011). |
