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DOI | 10.1007/s10584-018-2305-0 |
Self-assessed understanding of climate change | |
Hamilton, Lawrence C. | |
2018-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATIC CHANGE
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ISSN | 0165-0009 |
EISSN | 1573-1480 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 151期号:2页码:349-362 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Survey researchers often treat self-assessed understanding of climate change as a rough proxy for knowledge, which might affect what people believe about this topic. Self-assessments can be unrealistically high, however, and correlated with politics, so they deserve study in their own right. Turning the usual perspective around to view self-assessed understanding as dependent variable, problematically related to actual knowledge, casts self-assessments in a new light. Analysis of a 2016 US survey that carried a five-item test of very basic, belief-neutral but climate-relevant knowledge (such as knowing about the location of North and South Poles) finds that, at any given level of knowledge, people saying they understand a great deal about climate change are more likely to be older, college-educated, and male. Self-assessed understanding exhibits a U-shaped political pattern: highest among liberals and the most conservative, but lowest among moderate conservatives. Among liberal and middle-of-the-road respondents, self-assessed understanding of climate change is positively related to knowledge. Among the most conservative, however, understanding is unrelated or even negatively related to knowledge. For that group in particular, high self-assessed understanding reflects confidence in political views, rather than knowledge about the physical world. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000451021600018 |
WOS关键词 | SCIENCE LITERACY ; DONT TRUST ; PERCEPTIONS ; POLITICIZATION ; POLARIZATION ; SKEPTICISM ; KNOWLEDGE ; EDUCATION ; DIVIDE ; MEDIA |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30277 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | Univ New Hampshire, Dept Sociol, Durham, NH 03824 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hamilton, Lawrence C.. Self-assessed understanding of climate change[J]. CLIMATIC CHANGE,2018,151(2):349-362. |
APA | Hamilton, Lawrence C..(2018).Self-assessed understanding of climate change.CLIMATIC CHANGE,151(2),349-362. |
MLA | Hamilton, Lawrence C.."Self-assessed understanding of climate change".CLIMATIC CHANGE 151.2(2018):349-362. |
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